All the cells have disappeared!!

A friend has sent me one of his Excel spreadsheets that is causing him a
problem, as he thinks I know something about computing. I have opened this
spreadheet successfully in Excel 2000 but the first worksheet just displays
as a totally blank grey background. The column headings are there but all the
row headings are absent. If I drag down on the horizontal lower edge of the
column headings then row 65535 appears. If I do that again, then Row 65534
appears, and so on. However, I can't find any way to quickly reveal all the
rows.

Any suggestions as to how I can view the spreadsheet properly? If not, any
suggestions as to what my friend may have dione wrong? Nothing appears to be
hidden, frozen or protected.

I'd try this first:
Select all the cells (ctrl-a a few times)
format|row|unhide

Since you can see the column headings, you shouldn't need to do
format|column|unhide.

David Anderson wrote:
>
> A friend has sent me one of his Excel spreadsheets that is causing him a
> problem, as he thinks I know something about computing. I have opened this
> spreadheet successfully in Excel 2000 but the first worksheet just displays
> as a totally blank grey background. The column headings are there but all the
> row headings are absent. If I drag down on the horizontal lower edge of the
> column headings then row 65535 appears. If I do that again, then Row 65534
> appears, and so on. However, I can't find any way to quickly reveal all the
> rows.
>
> Any suggestions as to how I can view the spreadsheet properly? If not, any
> suggestions as to what my friend may have dione wrong? Nothing appears to be
> hidden, frozen or protected.

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Dave Peterson

Thanks, Dave. Your help is much appreciated. Ctrl-A plus Format/Row/Unhide
did the job.




"Dave Peterson" wrote:

> I'd try this first:
> Select all the cells (ctrl-a a few times)
> format|row|unhide
>
> Since you can see the column headings, you shouldn't need to do
> format|column|unhide.