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New Excel Comment Box Issue
My Excel comment boxes are showing up as a solid black box. On the
surface, it looks like the same issue as all the other posts that I have read. I'm running Office 2000 on Windows 2000 desktop. This has suddenly stopped working in the past week or so. I'm having problems with all spreadsheets with comments. I can access the spreadsheet on different computers without problems - all with the same setup. I have tried the following to no avail- Reinstalling Excel (2000) Checking the settings for the comment boxes - my settings are fill color: automatic style is set to 3/4 pt weight is set to .75 pt Changing the default in Control Panel: Go to Windows Control Panel Display Property appearance tab at scheme dropdown box set at "Windows Standard" Changing the color resolution to 32-bit I've read thru the thread provided by David McRitchie and didn't see any other solutions. http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel...ent.htm#colors Nothing seems to work. The only way to see the comment, is to edit it or to remove the border completely. I can't imagine that that is the fix - I would need to remove all borders from all comment boxes in all spreadsheets to see them? At this point, I'm about ready to throw my computer out the window. Please help! |
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Not sure, but maybe try ...
In Windows desktop Right click on any empty point choose Properties In Display Properties dialog, select Appearance tab Choose "Tooltip" under Item droplist and adjust the Color to light yellow? Click Apply OK -- Rgds Max xl 97 --- GMT+8, 1° 22' N 103° 45' E xdemechanik <atyahoo<dotcom ---- "elai" wrote in message ups.com... My Excel comment boxes are showing up as a solid black box. On the surface, it looks like the same issue as all the other posts that I have read. I'm running Office 2000 on Windows 2000 desktop. This has suddenly stopped working in the past week or so. I'm having problems with all spreadsheets with comments. I can access the spreadsheet on different computers without problems - all with the same setup. I have tried the following to no avail- Reinstalling Excel (2000) Checking the settings for the comment boxes - my settings are fill color: automatic style is set to 3/4 pt weight is set to .75 pt Changing the default in Control Panel: Go to Windows Control Panel Display Property appearance tab at scheme dropdown box set at "Windows Standard" Changing the color resolution to 32-bit I've read thru the thread provided by David McRitchie and didn't see any other solutions. http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel...ent.htm#colors Nothing seems to work. The only way to see the comment, is to edit it or to remove the border completely. I can't imagine that that is the fix - I would need to remove all borders from all comment boxes in all spreadsheets to see them? At this point, I'm about ready to throw my computer out the window. Please help! |
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Thanks for the reply Max. I had failed to mention that I already tried
that as well - tried a couple of different colors, but still no luck. David McRitchie had also suggusted that I try adding another printer and choosing that one as the default - that also did not work. |
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You're welcome. Out of ideas on this, sorry.
Hang around awhile for better insights from others .. Good luck ! -- Rgds Max xl 97 --- GMT+8, 1° 22' N 103° 45' E xdemechanik <atyahoo<dotcom ---- "elai" wrote in message ups.com... Thanks for the reply Max. I had failed to mention that I already tried that as well - tried a couple of different colors, but still no luck. David McRitchie had also suggusted that I try adding another printer and choosing that one as the default - that also did not work. |
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