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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 previously.
I've tried program repair, updates and re-installing Office and running in safe mode. No luck. Any suggestions for how I solve?
Many thanks!
- 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.
Changing default printer to a PDF printer seems to have worked for me and it makes sense regarding when this started happening. I had an older personal laptop and everything had been fine with Office apps (2010 version) and then I started noticing this problem. I've recently purchased a new laptop and everything was fine at first but then suddenly this started happening again. I realize now that it's related to having multiple printers from different sites installed. I'm working part time and using this laptop and the previous for personal use and for work using a separate user account. All printers installed show in both accounts and I'm guessing that the trashing or delay is caused by Excel trying to attach the the last printer used. Setting default to a PDF printer that's always available prevents this from happening. Thanks for the useful hint
- Setting the pdf printer as default was the solution in a Office 2019!!
- This is simply AMAZING and WEIRD! hahahaha
Tim_Hill2190 so we are now a year on from this issue being highlighted and Microsoft still haven't issued a simple fix? Don't they monitor this community?? Obviously too busy working on Windows 11 which is going to be just horrendous for most of us.
- Wie kann ich eine 15 spaltige und 1000 Zeilen Datei mit unterschiedlichen Zahlen von 1-300 so reihen, daß alle Zahlen aufsteigend in der Zeile gereiht werden
- 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.
Thank you again!
like all the others, I tried every think till formatting the PC! and nothing worked.
As it was a PC I used little I accepted to save the file myself every two minutes because on mine, it was not starting again after a few seconds but it was blocked until I kill the process.
And ! You saved me
thanks again
Emiru End of 2024 and this issue still exists. Thanks to you I found a solution.
- I had been experiencing the same problem for almost five months. However, I resolved the issue by removing all printers from my system, and now Microsoft Excel is working perfectly
- Unfortunately, I can't help you there. The only thing I have to offer is an old ticket through office 2016 with roughly the same problem. Take a look, maybe this will help you.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/microsoft-excel-2016-crashes-on-formatting-cells/51e29d30-82b0-4eae-bc3f-577b97d04bc9
Nikolino
I know I don't know anything (Socrates)I am also faced the same issue you just have to restart Print spooler service and issue got resolved.
Thank you for your feedback.
I would be happy if you would describe the steps (what exactly you did) to us.
This would also help others here in the forum.
When describing, please also describe the digital environment.
Office version, operating system, storage medium (hard drive, OneDrive, Sharepoint, etc.), printer model.
Thank you,
I know I don't know anything (Socrates)
