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    [HELP] Problem when opening an excel file

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    I'm using Microsoft Excel 2007, I have a problem when opening some excel files. Every time i try to open an excel file, excel tries to prompt me to select a printer as in the screenshot below:

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    Then after i select cancel, it turns the page of the excel file i'm opening into grey leaving the scribbles intact. But i loss all the colors i set in the cells. Like so:

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    I think it started after i clicked some buttons inadvertently when was opening excel before. Does anyone knows why is this happening? i think i changed the settings of how the excel program supposed to start or something. Cause it happens to every file i'm opening i think. please share your opinions.

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    After setting some other printer as default (by changing the current default printer to some other) completely close the excel application and open the excel file and check…


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    Re: [HELP] Problem when opening an excel file

    Quote Originally Posted by :) Sixthsense :) View Post
    After setting some other printer as default (by changing the current default printer to some other) completely close the excel application and open the excel file and check…
    GREAAATT!!! Works instantly.. now it opens as how it should & i don't have to redo my work. THanks a lot, gracias, arigato. Reputation added

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    Glad it helps you and thanks for the feedback and rep

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    Re: [HELP] Problem when opening an excel file

    by the way, just out of curiosity,, what actually caused my excel to act like that? So that it wont happen again. Thx.

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    Re: [HELP] Problem when opening an excel file

    Quote Originally Posted by :) Sixthsense :) View Post
    Glad it helps you and thanks for the feedback and rep
    by the way, just out of curiosity,, what actually caused my excel to act like that? So that it wont happen again. Thx.

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    Re: [HELP] Problem when opening an excel file

    First of all it is not the problem caused by excel and in fact the same scenario happened for one of the colleague of my organization and they ran to me and asked me to have a look… I just gone and seen it and found that the printer is causing the problem to excel and stopping excel from opening the file.

    I changed the default printer setting to some other printer and opened it and the problem gone.

    But the same printer configured to others with default printer is not caused any issue to the excel and it’s working nicely to others.

    I believe the (Default) Printer Driver of that users system is getting affected and that may be the root cause of this problem.

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