excel 2003 starts and takes control of video appearance

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Brian B

When I start excel 03 the screen goes black momentarily then changes the
screen color. My wallpaper and other program windows show in strange color
combinations. When I close excel the screen goes black again and the screen
reverts to its original settings
 
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Ben McBen

So this doesnt happen with any other apps? I havent seen this for a while,
used to happen when my old PC "ran out" of colours. Have you tried going
down to 16 bit (just as an experiment).
 
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Brian B

yes, I had the same thought as you. I tried 16 bit and there was no change.

This is the only program including Word & Outlook that has this effect.

I tried de-installing office 2003 and re-installing including cleaning the
registry in between.

This happened after I had to reinstall XP. I did not wipe the disk. Excel
worked fine before this.
 

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