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Default Excel Not Re-Drawing Symbols Consistently

Roger,

Some remote possibilities: Can you select each graphic and ensure that it's the size it's
supposed to be, looking at the handles? They're not obscuring one another are they? I
don't think they are, from your description, but this is some tall weeds we're in here.

Try turning on Select Objects (the white arrow at the left of the Drawing Toolbar). Then
drag a select box around them (or some of them), to see if something unexpected shows up.
LIke maybe extra graphic objects. Look at all the handles. Be sure to turn it back off, or
you'll go mad trying to select cells.

Did you try grouping them?

Or try switching to a different printer? File - Print - select another printer, then
Cancel. ???

Or maybe http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907349/en-us "How to troubleshoot video issues in
Office programs."

If you want to send it to me, my email address is at my web site, below.
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"Roger Starnes" wrote in message
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Earl, thanks for the response. By re-draw, I'm referring to the Windows
re-draw function. When I select an Excel tab and it displays it on the
screen, Excel should instruct Windows to re-draw every object on the tab. All
of the text items show up, but only some of the shapes and lines. If I click
on a particular shape, then it will redraw the shape correctly. However,
after doing that with several shapes, some of the first shapes will disappear
(however, their related text will still display).