All text disappears when wrap text in excel is used

[Guest]

When using an excel file, if I enable wrap text in a cell or multiple cells,
all of the text disappears on my screen. If the same file is pulled up on
someone elses computer, they can see the text fine. It appears that just my
computer is having this problem. I have been working with this hurdle for a
month.
Any ideas on how to fix this?

 

[vaughn.cory]

Several people in my office have had this issue...me included. We all
were able to resolve it by updating our video drivers. We are all
running Dell Latitude laptops (D610) and go the driver update from
support.dell.com.

 

[Guest]

Excellent! I'm on an hp Compaq nc8230 but had our IT download a new video
driver regardless. It worked!! I can see - I can work again. Life is
good!!!!

 

[andygee51]

Many thanks for this thread - was pulling my hair out trying to "fix" the same problem on a HP Compaq nx8220 (very similar to model above) - installed drivers were an old v6 from jan 2005, updatede to latest 2006 v8 driver and can confirm problem resolved - Yeah!



I should have thought of video drivers as i had another problem when updating iTunes on my laptop and suddenly i couldn't play any *.mov files as iTunes had updated something (directX component?) which my current video driver didn't support - I have updated my own tips/tricks stating any "unusual" video issues (text disappears/video's suddenly won't play etc) try updating video drivers (and have documented both my iTunes *.mov issue and this Word Wrap issue as examples)

In both cases updating Video drivers fixed the issue.
In both cases i was pulling my hair out trying to find solution.

Who would suspect video drivers when one moment its working and next time you try it doesn't (all because something unrelated may have been updated recently suddenly making an instruction no longer supported by driver)

Andy