Screen corruption and more

[Charlie]

I'm using XL 2002 SP3.

Occasionally, I get a corruption in my displayed spreadsheet. It seems to be
one part of the sheet is overlaid on another part. At the same time, many
of the mouse and keyboard keys become disabled -- like XL is hung but
Windows 2000 is fine. If I minimize XL and then restore it, the displayed
sheet is clear again and the mouse and keys now work just fine. Very
strange. Very annoying. So far, my spreadsheets have never been themselves
damaged in any way.

If I shut XL down completely, the restart will be fine. For a while.

This happens at what appears to be random times, at random intervals, on
random days. And doesn't seem to be tied to anything that I can figure out.

This is independent of the spreadsheet I'm using. It can be a months-old
sheet or a brand new one.

This strange behavior is unique to XL; no other Office or other program
shows this kind of thing.

I've completely unistalled XL2002 and reinstalled from CD and then applied
all the available updates. Twice! The bad behavior survives all of this.

I have learned how to work around this display corruption, but there's
clearly something wrong that I'd like to get fixed.

Ideas?

Thanks.

....Charlie

 

[Charlie]

I found an MS suggestion to reduce my display adapter hardware accelerator
factor. I'm slowly reducing this, step by step. Excel seems better but not
cured - at the expense of the display of everything else.

There's got to be a better way.

Charlie