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Excel 2013 formatting a mess
I could use some help. I turned on my Windows 10 computer this morning and the formatting of my excel spreading sheet is a garbled mess. Tens of thousands of once-clean cells now looks like this:
I tried to export file to another format, (2003 & macro-enabled), but no luck. Please help!
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You could select all cells by clicking the button in the top left corner of the sheet at the intersection of the row numbers and column letters.
Then select Clear > Clear Formats in the Editing group of the Home tab of the ribbon.
- Thanks for the suggestion Hans, but that just produced no formatting at all. I need to restore the formatting to it's original form.
Do you have a backup copy of the workbook from before the problem started?
Also:
If you are on Windows: right-click the workbook in File Explorer/Windows Explorer and select Previous Versions. Wait a few seconds to see if the dialog gets populated.
If you are on MacOS: see if you can find a valid version in Time Machine.
