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Copper Contributor

Sep 25, 2020

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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...

excel

office 365

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.

Emiru

Brass Contributor

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.

Daveirevos

Copper Contributor

Jul 14, 2022

this sound like the old games, that you had to something totally random to advance.

i had this issue, i reinstalled everything fresh, same crash.

i just defaulted the printer to PDF and it actually worked... this .. can't believe it.

but thanks! wish to know how this was discovered