Excel Screen Issue - Bizarre!!

[John Martin]

On a variety of occasions while running VB code (different
code, different applications) the left side of the
worksheet area of the screen will become hidden by a gray
overlay of some kind.

The tool bar area and the status bar area are not
affected. The only way to clear up the problem is to close
excel and reopen it.

This occurs even if the code runs successfully.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Excel version = Excel 2002 with SP 2 installed.

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

It sounds like you are turning grouping and outlining on.

are there little buttons at the top and dot next to each row?

 

[John Martin]

Tom, no little buttons, am not turning grouping or
outlining on. The area of the screen that becomes obscured
is a solid gray color about 2 inches wide by the height of
the worksheet area.

Thanks,

John

 

[Tim]

I've had this happen too... if you right-click on it you get the short-cut
menu as if it was a toolbar area (i did anyway). whatever macros i was
running at the time (can't remember) would NOT have been related to either
toolbars or group/outlining (at least, not intentionally!).

it would be great if someone could shed some light.

cheers,

tim

 

[Colin]

Tim,

I have a user that is having the same problem, and it is driving me
mad. This PC has a multi monitor setup and is using a Matrox card. I
have previously seen driver related issues like this, but nothing I've
tried so far has fixed this.

Are you guys using multi monitors or any funky graphics drivers?

Would love to get to the bottom of this.

Colin

 

[John Martin]

I am not using a multimonitor -- just a dell laptop --
nothing special.

John

-----Original Message-----
Tim,

I have a user that is having the same problem, and it is driving me
mad. This PC has a multi monitor setup and is using a Matrox card. I
have previously seen driver related issues like this, but nothing I've
tried so far has fixed this.

Are you guys using multi monitors or any funky graphics drivers?

Would love to get to the bottom of this.

Colin

"Tim" <t_marsh@---take-this-out-to-reply---

atcentre.co.uk> wrote in message

 

[Chip Pearson]

I use 3 19" LCD monitors hooked up to a Matrox 256 MB Parahelia
dual head video card, and I have no problems running Excel and/or
VBA. Word, on the other hand, does have problem with
multi-monitors.


--
Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com

 

[Tim]

It's a work laptop, but from what i can see its a TridentVideo Accelerator
Cyberblade XPAi1 v6.4022-016B.221CDNP

it was set to muiltiple monitors until about one minute ago! i've just
changed it to the single internal monitor setting.

does that help?!