Excel 2003 Sheet Tabs

[Technojunkie]

Ok, I'm in dire need of an Excel guru. Here's the issue that I'm having

If I create a workbook in excel 2003 both the sheet tabs and the scroll bars
show up just fine. When I receive an excel attachment via outlook, I can
open the excel atachment but neither the workbook sheet tabs nor the
horizontal and vertical scroll bars show up. I have checked in the options
section of excel and both the "show tabs" and the "Horizontal & Vertical
scroll bars" are checked as well.

I'm not certain if it's excel that has the issue or Outlook, but to me if I
click the attachment and can open it, that means that the pointer within
Outlook is working to link it to excel. Just a strange acting excel program
is what I think. Anyone have any ideas as to why this would happen or ideas
to chase to get a resolution. It's just frustrating at the moment.

Thanks for any advise that can be forthcoming.

 

[Nick Hodge]

Excel dumps the attached files in Temporary internet Files until they are
detached. If you save as... these files to another location, is all well?
If so I would suspect either a full Temp Internet Files folder (empty it) or
a strange Anti-virus quirk. try disabling it temporarily or switch off any
Office plug-in that scans mail as it arrives.

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
(e-mail address removed)
web: www.nickhodge.co.uk

 

[Technojunkie]

Well the strange thing is that it doesn't matter if I open the excel
attachment or save it, I don't get the sheet tabs or the scroll bars, so it
doesn't matter either way. Now if I forward the excel attachment to another
computer it opens, saves fine, tabs and scroll bars show up so it can't be
the document itself. Haven't tried the temp. internet files thing but will
give that a shot and post a success or failure.
I know that with word it has a global template that you can recreate (i.e.
ding a start - run - winword.exe /a) but not sure if excel has the same
feature? Then again it doesn't make sense why if I create a workbook,
everything is there versus receiving one in Outlook. But for now I will try
anything and let you know the results. Thanks for the info. Nick.... much
appreciated.