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Tim_Hill2190
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Sep 25, 2020

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...
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    Emiru
    Dec 30, 2020
    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.
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Emiru
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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.
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bobbyh60
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Feb 12, 2021

Emiru Brilliant. Have been having this problem for a while (may be because I am still using Windows 7). I Changed the PDF printer to default and all is now fine. Many thanks!

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