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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 8:31 am
I thought this would be a good thread for folks seeking advice with any Microsoft Office program. Seems like Microsoft’s help site isn’t always very helpful. My issue today has to do with Excel. I use it at work, and so far nobody here really knows why, and its more of an issue of inconvenience, so its not really high on anyone’s priority list to resolve. The Excel problem isn’t serious. Just a bit annoying and inconvenient. I can’t seem to view the spreadsheets with the color coding. Fill colors won’t show up, and neither do the font colors. up. Oh, before I elaborate, we are using Office 2003 here. In the off chance the chart was protected in some way, I opened up a fresh workbook and tried to do fill and font colors and got the same result. The colors are there, cause if I do a print preview the affected cells are various shades of grey indicating the fill effects are working. I just can’t see them when I view the workbook. With the fonts, I can click on a color and type the font, and the color will show up as I’m typing. But as soon as I tab out of the cell, the font goes back to black. It has something to do with my log in, or some setting my log in is causing things to happen. My boss can open the same workbook on her computer, and still see the colors. And just to make sure it wasn’t this computer, she logged in on this one and could see the colors here. But as soon as she logged out and I logged back in, the colors were gone again. And no, I didn’t mess around with any settings before this happened. The first time I opened the workbook under my log in, this started happening. I did customize the “theme” settings on my desktop to have a few different colors (such as “active title bar” and those kinds of features). Just in case that had something to do with it, I also changed the theme back to the default settings, and still was unable to view the colors in Excel. As long as I’m here, I also have a weird issue with online Help. When I’m in an Office program and click “help,” the window pops up with humongous letters. I’m talking about one letter filling maybe ¾ of the screen. Even going into the “view” feature on the toolbar, and setting it to “smallest” text does very little to reduce the size of the letters. I think it could have something to do with the accessibility feature. Cause the MRP program we use here has very tiny fonts. So one day I was trying to mess with the computer’s accessibility feature to make things easier to read. I didn’t like the results, so I changed it back. Or so I thought. But every time I open the help screen, there are those huge letters slamming me in the face again. IE also opens up with large letters each time. But it lets me change it back to smaller settings. Its just that each time it opens up, it goes back to the larger text size. Where do I go to make sure the accessibility feature isn’t turned on for these programs? We’re using Windows XP Professional Version 2002 here.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 1:17 pm
Does anyone use Quickbooks? I just received the W-2's back from the accountant. During the year, I have entered change of addresses for several employees. The new addresses appeared on their checks. The problem is that on the W-2's, their old addresses printed out. I would think that maybe the accountant just used last year's address, but there was a new employee this year, so he wouldn't have any idea what her original address was. Anyone have any clues? (Sorry, Whoami, I know this isn't an excell program, but I didn't want to start a new thread.)
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 12:21 am
No problems Grooch! That's why I titled the thread for various Microsoft problems, so any question could be raised. Nobody ever answered my problem here (or at work, where I'm no longer employed anyway. So moot now as it is). But I did figure it out for myself eventually before the job ended.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Friday, January 26, 2007 - 10:40 am
Although... Quickbooks isn't a Microsoft program! 
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Friday, January 26, 2007 - 10:43 am
Grooch, in my version of Quickbooks, you get to preview and correct W2s before they print out. You could provide the correct addresses to the accountant and have him reprint. It's probably just a glitch in the QB software. Hopefully he has downloaded all their updates, because there have been a few of them since January 1 to fix those things.
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