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Josh Culbertson
I've been passing back and forth a series of Excel files
between various employees in my office. We ran into errors
wherein data in cells would suddenly begin to duplicate
itself all over the spreadsheet, in other cells; I tracked
down that that was an error in Excel 2001, and had everyone
install the service update, but now there's a new problem.
The most recent file I was sent seemed to have all text
formatted blue and underlined (indicating, at least to my eyes, that
it was a hyperlink). Upon closing and re-opening, the formatting had
all changed—the hyperlinks were all gone, and instead the font size
had changed, and different text had turned red. I assume this isn't
simply a text format issue, but something more serious.
Changing formats normally (highlighting all text and increasing the
font size, for instance) would sometimes work, and sometimes crash the
application. Upon re-opening from a crash, often the
formats would look radically different-- new font sizes,
colors, and formatting.
Has anyone seen this error before? What can I do to correct
this, not only on my own machine, but on those of my
coworkers? Is this a glitch from passing Excel files between different
versions of Excel?
Any advice would be genuinely appreciated. Thanks.
-J. Culbertson
School District of Philadelphia
between various employees in my office. We ran into errors
wherein data in cells would suddenly begin to duplicate
itself all over the spreadsheet, in other cells; I tracked
down that that was an error in Excel 2001, and had everyone
install the service update, but now there's a new problem.
The most recent file I was sent seemed to have all text
formatted blue and underlined (indicating, at least to my eyes, that
it was a hyperlink). Upon closing and re-opening, the formatting had
all changed—the hyperlinks were all gone, and instead the font size
had changed, and different text had turned red. I assume this isn't
simply a text format issue, but something more serious.
Changing formats normally (highlighting all text and increasing the
font size, for instance) would sometimes work, and sometimes crash the
application. Upon re-opening from a crash, often the
formats would look radically different-- new font sizes,
colors, and formatting.
Has anyone seen this error before? What can I do to correct
this, not only on my own machine, but on those of my
coworkers? Is this a glitch from passing Excel files between different
versions of Excel?
Any advice would be genuinely appreciated. Thanks.
-J. Culbertson
School District of Philadelphia