Jon,

1. On excel 97, I can't remember it happening there either. But, at my age?
2. It seems to appear about the middle of the ws from right to left and
usually around the formula bar or below.
I have a Dell 820, nvidia video, P4, windows xp home, xl2002.
3. I have NOT been able to figure out why it appears and it will NOT go away
without exit and re-enter xl.

"Jon Peltier" wrote in message
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A bit of background may help. I don't recall ever seeing it in Excel
97, in a number of systems (Win95 and 92, 2000). I do see it on my
WinXP laptop running Excel 2000. What are you guys using, and where is
the blank patch?

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
http://www.geocities.com/jonpeltier/Excel/index.html
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Don Guillett wrote:
Ditto problem. Thought it was a video card problem?
If the graph expert (Jon), doesn't know, I guess no one does.

"Jim" wrote in message
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Weird question but I am sure that you know the answer.

When I run a macro, an image from another application or
my desktop, if nothing else is open, remains on my screen
when in excel. It is small, 1 inch, but it is anoying
and will not go away unless I shut down excel and
reopen. I am guessing that it is from screen updating
and I could turn that off but I was wondering if there is
another solution.

It is like there is a hole in my excel sheet and I can
see through to whatever is behind it. Anybody know what
I am talking about?