Drawing a line in Excel 2003
 

I'm having trouble seeing lines I've drawn in Excel 2003. The lines I draw
print out fine, they just "disappear" after they are created.

Is there a setting I can change to make the lines visible?

I've already tried making the width larger, and setting the color explicitly
to black. Those things have not helped.

BobT,

This may or may not help, but I had a similar problem with the auditing
trace lines within Excel (run a search for 'trace' witin excel group messages
- message subject is along the lines of 'Trace Precedent and Dependent Lines
are Invisible').

Anyway, this is what I've discovered:
....the source of my problem: I was using a COM Add-In that seems to have
affected the ability of the autoshape lines to stay on-screen.

Once I disabled the COM Add-In from loading at start-up, the behaviour of
autoshape lines (and the auditing trace lines) returned to normal.

(Just to add to the complexity of this issue, I can still actually use the
Add-In as long as I add it in/ enable it manually AFTER excel has loaded
(i.e. it will cause the problem if it's left to load automatically at
start-up).

So, perhaps it's worth checking if you have any COM Add-In's...

"BobT" wrote:

I'm having trouble seeing lines I've drawn in Excel 2003. The lines I draw
print out fine, they just "disappear" after they are created.

Is there a setting I can change to make the lines visible?

I've already tried making the width larger, and setting the color explicitly
to black. Those things have not helped.

Thanks. I found out what the problem was a few weeks ago. My graphics
drivers needed to be updated on the laptop. Once they were updated, there
were no problems.

"Craig M" wrote:

BobT,

This may or may not help, but I had a similar problem with the auditing
trace lines within Excel (run a search for 'trace' witin excel group messages
- message subject is along the lines of 'Trace Precedent and Dependent Lines
are Invisible').

Anyway, this is what I've discovered:
...the source of my problem: I was using a COM Add-In that seems to have
affected the ability of the autoshape lines to stay on-screen.

Once I disabled the COM Add-In from loading at start-up, the behaviour of
autoshape lines (and the auditing trace lines) returned to normal.

(Just to add to the complexity of this issue, I can still actually use the
Add-In as long as I add it in/ enable it manually AFTER excel has loaded
(i.e. it will cause the problem if it's left to load automatically at
start-up).

So, perhaps it's worth checking if you have any COM Add-In's...

"BobT" wrote:

I'm having trouble seeing lines I've drawn in Excel 2003. The lines I draw
print out fine, they just "disappear" after they are created.

Is there a setting I can change to make the lines visible?

I've already tried making the width larger, and setting the color explicitly
to black. Those things have not helped.