Another possibility...
You moved Column A off screen.
You added a Freeze Pane
The window is now frozen with Column A off of the screen.

To fix just remove the freeze pane.
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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Mike Hartsough" wrote:

I was working away on a spreadsheet when I noticed that Column A had
disappeared.

I first thought that I had somehow "hidden" it, so I ran the command to
unhide column A. Column A did not reappear.

I have discovered that if I <Alt<Tab from column B, the cursor moves off
the left side of the window, effectively disappearing, and the A1 cell ID
appears in the "Name Box" pane, and the contents of A1 appears in the "fx"
pane.

So column A isn't hidden, it's just somewhere off the left side of the Excel
window.

Can someone tell me how I can get column A to actually be displayed?

Office Excel 2003, sp3.

Thanks,
Mike