A person from our IT staff finally took over the problem and after a few days
gave the laptop back to me with the problem repaired. Of course he never said
exactly what he did to fix the problem. Actually, I am not sure he knows
exactly what fixed the problem. BTW, mine is also a DELL D610 laptop with a
docking station and external dual displays. This sounds remarkably similar to
Allout's config.

bcj

"Allout" wrote:

Hey, this could be it! I am using dual displays, and there is another thread
that hit upon a workaround, this sounds like a solution to the same problem.
I am downloading a new video driver now..

Allout Mtn Biker

copy of workaround thread.

"Subject: wrap text function causes data to disappear in cell (visually)"
"I found a workaround. The laptop that I'm using has an external
monitor hooked up to it. Whenever this starts to happen, if I open the
display settings and disable one of the monitors, then click apply, it
starts to work. The odd thing is that I can then re-enable the monitor
and it still works.

It's been working since then, and I can no longer reproduce the
problem. I assume that the problem will crop up again eventually.

I hope this helps some of you deal with the problem, and maybe this
will help us track down the true cause.

Lakin"


" wrote:

Several people in my office have had this issue...me included. We all
were able to resolve it by updating our video drivers. We are all
running Dell Latitude laptops (D610) and go the driver update from
support.dell.com.