Excel issue
BetsyD
Cincinnati, OH Icrontian
I am asking for a groupmate:
The situation:
1. Have excel table.
2. Connect laptop to a projector.
3. function switch to dual projection.
4. Open excel sheet.
5. Excel freaks out and starts auto-zooming to 400% view. As well as no menu can be clicked on.
6. Nothing short of restarting the computer makes it stop.
What would cause this? Has anyone seen this happen before?
The situation:
1. Have excel table.
2. Connect laptop to a projector.
3. function switch to dual projection.
4. Open excel sheet.
5. Excel freaks out and starts auto-zooming to 400% view. As well as no menu can be clicked on.
6. Nothing short of restarting the computer makes it stop.
What would cause this? Has anyone seen this happen before?
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Is does it actually say it's Zooming to 400% or does it just look that much bigger? Because if it just looks that much bigger then it could be the resolution your projector is running at. But I'm not sure why your title bars would be disappearing. When you attach to the projector are you replicating your screen?
The setup was that there was a "room" computer thats normally hooked to the projector. Anything displayed on that computer including excel files looked normal sized.
One of my group mates wanted to display a spreadsheet but was having trouble connecting to the wireless to email it to the person logged into the room computer.
Since the back of the room computer is accessible, we unhooked the blue plug for the projector from the room computer and hooked it to groupmate's laptop.
When we did the FN+F# to switch from Laptop only display to Laptop & projector display, excel started automatically *zooming* in to 400%.
We unhooked the projector and then even just on the laptop all microsoft office (word, excel and powerpoint) files zoomed to 400%. Restarting the computer "fixed" the issue. When we plugged the laptop back into the projector it did it again.
The title bar didn't disappear. It was still visible but clicking on the menu items (File, Edit, View...) only "flashed" the menu and there was no way to click any of the items in the menu. Keyboard access to the menus didn't work at all.
I had never seen Excel behave in that manner and it was impossible for me to fix quickly. Luckily I remembered that I had a thumb drive in my laptop bag and we were able to transfer the file that we wanted to look at to the room computer but I want to be prepared in the future with the fix should it be an issue again.
By the way, I found that logging out of Windows and back in would fix the problem... didn't have to actually restart it. But the problem comes back as soon as we plug the projector back in (using a VGA cable btw).