cell contents are invisible while formula bar is visible.
I have quadruple checked the font and fill color. fill color looks fine. font color never updates...or does not appear to because I cannot see any contents in the cell at all.

some of these are linked to other workbooks. although there are a couple that are simple text values and even those aren't appearing. some of these cells are protected but other protected cells are showing up fine. I cannot seem to find what the problem could be.

I came from an earlier version of excel....not sure which one but I can't imagine that I did anything so different in terms of backward/forward compatability as to have a problem this major.

please help!