Excels Vertical line gone?

[Sabian576]

Hi all,
When you open MS Excel (All verions of course) There are Horizontal and Vertical Light grey "Cell Defining" Lines. Obviously. WELL, My Vertical "Cell Defining" Line have dissapeared. I have messed with all the settings I can think of, and uninstalled reinstalled, and still have the issue. Can anyone think of why, or how I can fix it?

Thanks

[Dtree11]

Here:

Click Tools

Then

Click Options

Then

Click View tab

Then under Window options, click Row & Column headers (if unchecked)

[Sabian576]

its already cheaked. I just found out thats its not JUST excel its MS Works too. Both of those programs, So now I'm REALLY confused...

[pillainp]

May seem unrelated, but what happens when you draw/create a table in Word? Are the verticals missing there too?

[pam123]

I want to be sure I understand you here.
You've completely uninstalled Office and reinstalled it?
Have you also done a scan to make sure you don't have the latest Excel exploit?

[Sabian576]

Pillainp - When I draw vertical lines they do appear. and actually in excel I can make them appear by formating cells and selecting a border then also selecting the center lines and all that, but then they are dark black, and all that - point is I shouldn't have to do that, I never have before it used to be just the light grey cell defining lines that showed.(both vertical and Horizontal.)

Pam123 - Yes I completely uninstalled reinstalled, reactivated through MS's lovely phone activation program, and all that fun stuff. I a'm not sure What the "Latest Excel exploit" means, if you could inlighten me I could better answer that question.

I am going to try and grab a screenshot and post it right quick.

Thanx for the help

[Sabian576]

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[pam123]

Microsoft Office apps are now being targeted.
It started with Word and was lilmited, then, to the Far East but that's no longer the case.
The Excel is the latest target and PowerPoint is going to be the next.
The Excel hack is delivered in a spreadsheet (that's not the only way though) and it installs a trojan/keylogger.
They're called zero day exploits because of the way they're targeted, always after patch Tuesday so that it's going to take Microsoft a month to do anything about it.
In other words, it not a looming threat but an immeadiate one.
The first series were done by real pros and didn't give themselves away but some of the more recent ones do, by degrading Office app performance.
So update and scan you computer for malware (In safe mode with System Restore disabled).
I would use an on-line scan as well, like Housecall : http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
If it turns up clean then I would run a registry cleaner and use Office Repair.
If all is good to go then renable Sytem Restore and set a date point.

[Alaron]

Forgive me if I'm missing something, but in your screenshot, I see horizontal and vertical lines in your spreadsheet.

[Sabian576]

Oh Really? That interesting...NOW I'M CONFUSED. I mean yeah there are vertical lines...but, the ones I'm concerend about are the lines between A & B...B & C...C & D...etc etc.

do you see those lines?

[ComputerNut]

I checked that screenshot, and all the lines appear perfectly. If they were in bad shape when you took that screenshot, seems like something could be wrong with your display. Have you perhaps tried setting your monitor to a different resolution?

HTH

[pam123]

There's nothing in the screenshot to show the problem.

[Sabian576]

hmmmm, looking at it from my home computer I see that you are indeed correct...Weird. I never changed my Resolution at work (where the problem is) so I dunno. I play with it on monday, I may be able to figure it out now that I know its not a software issue.

Thanx for the help Guys.

[rjfvillarosa]

Just to add to your dismay it looks perfect here to....