Excel cell formats changed after Windows Update


  1. Posts : 2
    Win7 Pro x64
       #1

    Excel cell formats changed after Windows Update


    Hi. After getting my wife's laptop with Win 7 Pro to run it's updates again after a week's worth of struggling with that, she opened an existing LARGE spreadsheet to find that all the green cell contents were now blue, and the cells with $ formatting were now general format again !! Not a happy camper !
    Has anyone ever experienced anything like this after Windows Updates ? Could something have affected the palette settings for the colors ? Over 120 updates (mix of security, Office 10, net frame etc.) were done so a little tough to identify the potential culprit.

    Thanks for any insight.
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  2. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #2

    No, I've never seen that. I have a bunch of color-coded Excel stuff, but updates have never affected it.

    You may have to do a System Restore to a time before the updates, if you'd rather give up the updates than deal with the Excel issues. I assume the Excel formatting issues can't be easily corrected.
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  3. Posts : 9,746
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit sp1
       #3

    Hi techless, welcome to the Forum.

    You could try Repairing Office 2010. This MS website tells you how to do that & it pretty straight forward.

    https://support.office.com/en-us/art...e-a6b40c5bb88b

    If that does not help, get back with more info on the problem.

    I know this is not much help to you at the moment, but if you have files & spreadsheets that you really rely on it's absolutely essential that you have your system backed up.
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  4. Posts : 2
    Win7 Pro x64
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Thanks guys for the response. Turns out that some of the spreadsheets were from Office 2003, and 2007 so there may be a compatibility issue going on here as well. We do have the files backed up so we are ok there. I'll take a look at the link Ranger4 posted as well.
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