New Excel Comment Box Issue

My Excel comment boxes are showing up as a solid black box. On the
surface, it looks like the same issue as all the other posts that I
have read. I'm running Office 2000 on Windows 2000 desktop. This has
suddenly stopped working in the past week or so. I'm having problems
with all spreadsheets with comments. I can access the spreadsheet on
different computers without problems - all with the same setup. I have
tried the following to no avail-

Reinstalling Excel (2000)

Checking the settings for the comment boxes - my settings are
fill color: automatic
style is set to 3/4 pt
weight is set to .75 pt

Changing the default in Control Panel: Go to Windows Control Panel >
Display Property > appearance tab > at scheme dropdown box set at
"Windows Standard"

Changing the color resolution to 32-bit

I've read thru the thread provided by David McRitchie and didn't see
any other solutions.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel...ent.htm#colors

Nothing seems to work. The only way to see the comment, is to edit it
or to remove the border completely. I can't imagine that that is the
fix - I would need to remove all borders from all comment boxes in all
spreadsheets to see them?

At this point, I'm about ready to throw my computer out the window.
Please help!

Not sure, but maybe try ...

In Windows desktop
Right click on any empty point > choose Properties
In Display Properties dialog, select Appearance tab
Choose "Tooltip" under Item droplist
and adjust the Color to light yellow?
Click Apply > OK

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Rgds
Max
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"elai" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> My Excel comment boxes are showing up as a solid black box. On the
> surface, it looks like the same issue as all the other posts that I
> have read. I'm running Office 2000 on Windows 2000 desktop. This has
> suddenly stopped working in the past week or so. I'm having problems
> with all spreadsheets with comments. I can access the spreadsheet on
> different computers without problems - all with the same setup. I have
> tried the following to no avail-
>
> Reinstalling Excel (2000)
>
> Checking the settings for the comment boxes - my settings are
> fill color: automatic
> style is set to 3/4 pt
> weight is set to .75 pt
>
> Changing the default in Control Panel: Go to Windows Control Panel >
> Display Property > appearance tab > at scheme dropdown box set at
> "Windows Standard"
>
> Changing the color resolution to 32-bit
>
> I've read thru the thread provided by David McRitchie and didn't see
> any other solutions.
> http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel...ent.htm#colors
>
> Nothing seems to work. The only way to see the comment, is to edit it
> or to remove the border completely. I can't imagine that that is the
> fix - I would need to remove all borders from all comment boxes in all
> spreadsheets to see them?
>
> At this point, I'm about ready to throw my computer out the window.
> Please help!
>

Thanks for the reply Max. I had failed to mention that I already tried
that as well - tried a couple of different colors, but still no luck.

David McRitchie had also suggusted that I try adding another printer
and choosing that one as the default - that also did not work.

You're welcome. Out of ideas on this, sorry.
Hang around awhile for better insights from others ..
Good luck !
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Rgds
Max
xl 97
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GMT+8, 1° 22' N 103° 45' E
xdemechanik <at>yahoo<dot>com
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"elai" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the reply Max. I had failed to mention that I already tried
> that as well - tried a couple of different colors, but still no luck.
>
> David McRitchie had also suggusted that I try adding another printer
> and choosing that one as the default - that also did not work.
>

It is as simple as changing the color of your desktop. Evidently it is set to black. This happened to me and when I changed it to white everything was fine. Let me know if you do not know how to accomplish this.