No text appears in excell LyndaB 30.09.2006 00:01:01 When I type in the top box or a cell no text shows up. On one of my forms all the text was actually omited when I opened. What happened?

Re: No text appears in excell Gord Dibben <gorddibbATshawDOTca> 30.09.2006 00:15:05 All workbooks you open in Excel behave this way? Even a new workbook from File>New? Or just one or a few workbooks? Does it happen on all sheets of a workbook? By "top box" I assume you mean "formula bar". What kind of "form"? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:01:01 -0700, LyndaB <LyndaB[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >When I type in the top box or a cell no text shows up. On one of my forms >all the text was actually omited when I opened. What happened?

RE: No text appears in excell JLatham 30.09.2006 00:19:02 You changed your text color to white? After typing into the formula bar at the top, go and select the cell you were typing in to and highlight it and one or two more around it - see if you can suddenly see the text. That would indicate that the text has been turned white. Or simply click in a cell that you believe should have something in it and see if it appears at the top in the formula bar. There are other possibilities, but this would be something to check early on. "LyndaB" wrote: [Quoted Text] > When I type in the top box or a cell no text shows up. On one of my forms > all the text was actually omited when I opened. What happened?

Re: No text appears in excell LyndaB 30.09.2006 01:26:02 All workbooks. I even opened an existing file and all the text had disappeared. I've already tried changing the colors. Yes I meant the formula bar. that too has no visable text. "Gord Dibben" wrote: [Quoted Text] > All workbooks you open in Excel behave this way? > > Even a new workbook from File>New? > > Or just one or a few workbooks? > > Does it happen on all sheets of a workbook? > > By "top box" I assume you mean "formula bar". > > What kind of "form"? > > > Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP > > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:01:01 -0700, LyndaB <LyndaB[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> > wrote: > > >When I type in the top box or a cell no text shows up. On one of my forms > >all the text was actually omited when I opened. What happened? > >

Re: No text appears in excell Gord Dibben <gorddibbATshawDOTca> 30.09.2006 01:41:21 When you click on Format>Style and Normal what are the attributes? I'm just scratching around now because it would take two or more things to turn off both cell text and formula bar text visibility but only on a sheet basis. I don't know of any combinations that would affect all workbooks and worksheets including existing ones. I have never suggested this before but.........Mayhaps it is time to do a good virus scan? Hopefully this is not the case and someone will come up with something for you. Gord On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:26:02 -0700, LyndaB <LyndaB[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >All workbooks. I even opened an existing file and all the text had >disappeared. I've already tried changing the colors. Yes I meant the >formula bar. that too has no visable text. > >"Gord Dibben" wrote: > >> All workbooks you open in Excel behave this way? >> >> Even a new workbook from File>New? >> >> Or just one or a few workbooks? >> >> Does it happen on all sheets of a workbook? >> >> By "top box" I assume you mean "formula bar". >> >> What kind of "form"? >> >> >> Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP >> >> >> On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:01:01 -0700, LyndaB <LyndaB[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> >> wrote: >> >> >When I type in the top box or a cell no text shows up. On one of my forms >> >all the text was actually omited when I opened. What happened? >> >>

Re: No text appears in excell Dave Peterson <petersod[ at ]verizonXSPAM.net> 30.09.2006 01:46:18 I think that there was someone who posted the same kind of problem--just a few days ago. They posted back that as soon as they stopped using multiple monitors, the problem disappeared. Are you using multiple monitors? LyndaB wrote: [Quoted Text] > > When I type in the top box or a cell no text shows up. On one of my forms > all the text was actually omited when I opened. What happened? -- Dave Peterson

Re: No text appears in excell JLatham 30.09.2006 05:00:02 Have you tried taking any of the workbooks to another computer with Excel on it and seeing how they look on that computer? I agree with Gord Dibben that there is a potential that some malware has done this, although I haven't heard of one just picking on the contents of an Excel workbook - but stranger things have been done. Because of this risk, you may want to be certain that the other machine has a strong, updated anti-virus application running on it. There are several sites that offer online scanning of both your computer and individual files, one that I trust is at Kaspersky Labs: http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner "LyndaB" wrote: [Quoted Text] > All workbooks. I even opened an existing file and all the text had > disappeared. I've already tried changing the colors. Yes I meant the > formula bar. that too has no visable text. > > "Gord Dibben" wrote: > > > All workbooks you open in Excel behave this way? > > > > Even a new workbook from File>New? > > > > Or just one or a few workbooks? > > > > Does it happen on all sheets of a workbook? > > > > By "top box" I assume you mean "formula bar". > > > > What kind of "form"? > > > > > > Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP > > > > > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:01:01 -0700, LyndaB <LyndaB[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> > > wrote: > > > > >When I type in the top box or a cell no text shows up. On one of my forms > > >all the text was actually omited when I opened. What happened? > > > >