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My MS-Excel window goes black partially and intermittently.
Dear Microsoft Office Team, When I open and add data to an Excel sheet, the screen goes black partially (in some parts) and intermittently. It is like black sections flashing on the screen. The p...
- I already solved this issue. In case someone out there has the same problem, here is the proven solution:
Disable the graphics acceleration:
1. From Excel's main menu select Options.
2. At Excel Options window, choose Advanced on the left pane.
3. At the right pane, under Display options, CHECK the "Disable hardware graphics acceleration" checkbox and click OK.
This solution was provided on September 2022 by: Ravikumar Vadamalai, Independent Advisor, Microsoft Community.
Greetings to the Microsoft Tech Community.
Hi - I would click on it if it was there somewhere. Under File>Options>Advanced the following are choices none of which show a graphics acceleration option: "Display"; "Display options for this workbook"; "Display options for this worksheet". My workaround is to close the workbook and reopen it and that solves the keep working issue but doesn't solve the problem.
mi_green You are almost there. The "Disable hardware graphics acceleration" option is within the "Display" section. I am attaching a screenshot to show it. Follow the red arrow.
Follow the red arrow.
Best regards.