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Tim_Hill2190
Sep 25, 2020Copper Contributor
Excel freezes when formatting cells
When I try to format a cell in Excel - bolding, underlining, switching font size - the program freezes and I need to re-start. Is a new issue from last 2 days having worked without problems previous...
- Dec 30, 2020This may sound ridiculously simple, but try to change your default printer to PDF. I have suffered from the same problem and this helped instantly.
charlie1volley
Feb 23, 2021Copper Contributor
can't imagine how on earth you ever figured this out, but i'm glad you did, worked perfectly, thanks!
Dennis_Thibeault
Feb 27, 2021Copper Contributor
charlie1volley Very strange, but that does appear to work. I just changed my default printer to Microsoft PDF and the format cells no longer pauses/hangs Excel for 40-60 seconds. Great workaround, now let's see if the good folks at Microsoft can fix that one 🙂