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Excel freezes when formatting cells
- This may sound ridiculously simple, but try to change your default printer to PDF. I have suffered from the same problem and this helped instantly.
THill9999 Where? Where do we set this? In Excel Print dialogue? Or in Windows Printers? TIA
Hi MarioPetrella, on windows 10 I just went to Settings > Printers & scanners > select: Microsoft print to PDF under the list of Printers & scanners > click: Manage > select: Set as default. When you go back to the Printers & scanners menu, it should say Default underneath Microsoft print to PDF...
- Please note that you need to untick "Let Windows manage my default printer" from directly under Settings > Printers & Scanners to be able to select default printer.
charlie1volley Thanks!
I found that I needed to make a change in Windows settings; but ...
After I failed using the Print dialogue in the app (that also caused a hang), followed by being unable to get a "make Default" dialogue within the list of Printers, AND showing no printers in Settings. (I did, however, see a check box for allowing Windows to manage Printer selection.
So, what I did to resolve my issue was to first re-Start the machine; then when I came back up I was able to right-click on Microsoft PDF among the list of Printers in the File Explorer window, and set that as the Default (at this point I received a dialogue informing me that Windows would no longer Manage my printers for me).
So it looks like, in my case, some change occurred under the covers that cascaded into the issue I was experiencing.
Thank you to all for assisting correcting my problem!
