Excel cell formats changed after Windows Update

[techless]

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.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

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.

 

[Ranger4]

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/ar...lication-7821d4b6-7c1d-4205-aa0e-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.

 

[techless]

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.