Disappearing row numbers

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I recently upgraded from W95 to W98 and am running Office 97. When I open my Excel workbooks the row
numbers 1 thru 9 are displayed 10 and beyond are blank. If I left click in the row header column on the row
seperator bar, the rest of the numbers will appear. If I select a cell in a row numerically higher than 9, the
number disappears again. If I left click either the up or down, single line scroll arrow, the row number for each
new row displayed will also be displayed. If I open a brand new workbook, the numbers 1 thru 99 will be
displayed and remain regardless of the cell selected. 100 and higher will respond as above.
Any Ideas?
BobCat
 
This doesn't sound like an excel problem.

It sounds more like a video display problem.

I'd go to Windows start button|settings|control panel|Display Applet

(Write down all your settings before you change them!)

On the Settings Tab, you could fiddle with the colors.
(I use True Color (32 bit) with Win98 and xl2002. My video card has 4 meg
(IIRC) of memory. I run 1024x768 screen area).

Then check under the Advanced button.
Click on the performance tab
time to fiddle with the Hardware acceleration. (Mine is set for Full.)

Remember to write down your existing settings--just in case.

And maybe a new video driver would help. You might want to visit your
manufacturer's web site.
 
Dave,
Thank you for responding. It is working correctly now. I stumbled on the solution while trying other fonts. My Style font was Arial 8pt. I could not figure out why some fonts would work and others not until I looked in a zip file of the W95 fonts I had been using. The Arial.ttf file I had been using in W95 was 64k, dated 7/11/95. The W98 Arial.ttf file was 267k, dated 4/23/99. When I moved the newer file to another folder and replaced it with the older file, my numbers reappeared except when I selected a cell. I replaced the new Arialbd.ttf 278k 4/23/99 file with the old Arialbd.ttf 66k 7/11/95 file and that resolved the select problem. I noticed that some of the other fonts that gave the same problem were also larger file sizes. Do you have any ideas on this wrinkle?
BobCat

----- Dave Peterson wrote: -----

This doesn't sound like an excel problem.

It sounds more like a video display problem.

I'd go to Windows start button|settings|control panel|Display Applet

(Write down all your settings before you change them!)

On the Settings Tab, you could fiddle with the colors.
(I use True Color (32 bit) with Win98 and xl2002. My video card has 4 meg
(IIRC) of memory. I run 1024x768 screen area).

Then check under the Advanced button.
Click on the performance tab
time to fiddle with the Hardware acceleration. (Mine is set for Full.)

Remember to write down your existing settings--just in case.

And maybe a new video driver would help. You might want to visit your
manufacturer's web site.
 
I don't have any idea why one font would work and the othe wouldn't. (I also
upgraded from Win95 to win98 (although a few years ago).)

My arial fonts are 267k (arial.ttf) and 278k (arialbd.ttf) and both work ok.
(Under tools|options|general, I had "arial, 10" and just tried "arial, 8" and
both 10 & 8 worked ok.)

I'd keep a copy of those other fonts--just in case something bad starts
happening later.
 
I reviewed your video settings and suspect that W98 might be stretching my system a bit. I am running a Pentium 100 with STB Horizon 64 Video PCI 640x480 16bit High Color. Well, thank you very much for your help.
BobCat

----- Dave Peterson wrote: -----

I don't have any idea why one font would work and the othe wouldn't. (I also
upgraded from Win95 to win98 (although a few years ago).)

My arial fonts are 267k (arial.ttf) and 278k (arialbd.ttf) and both work ok.
(Under tools|options|general, I had "arial, 10" and just tried "arial, 8" and
both 10 & 8 worked ok.)

I'd keep a copy of those other fonts--just in case something bad starts
happening later.
 
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