Drawing a line in Excel 2003

[Guest]

I'm having trouble seeing lines I've drawn in Excel 2003. The lines I draw
print out fine, they just "disappear" after they are created.

Is there a setting I can change to make the lines visible?

I've already tried making the width larger, and setting the color explicitly
to black. Those things have not helped.

 

[Guest]

BobT,

This may or may not help, but I had a similar problem with the auditing
trace lines within Excel (run a search for 'trace' witin excel group messages
- message subject is along the lines of 'Trace Precedent and Dependent Lines
are Invisible').

Anyway, this is what I've discovered:
....the source of my problem: I was using a COM Add-In that seems to have
affected the ability of the autoshape lines to stay on-screen.

Once I disabled the COM Add-In from loading at start-up, the behaviour of
autoshape lines (and the auditing trace lines) returned to normal.

(Just to add to the complexity of this issue, I can still actually use the
Add-In as long as I add it in/ enable it manually AFTER excel has loaded
(i.e. it will cause the problem if it's left to load automatically at
start-up).

So, perhaps it's worth checking if you have any COM Add-In's...

 

[Guest]

Thanks. I found out what the problem was a few weeks ago. My graphics
drivers needed to be updated on the laptop. Once they were updated, there
were no problems.