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Buttons appear 'pushed' when they're not?

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    Buttons appear 'pushed' when they're not?

    Hi all,
    All of a sudden (I know--that's a trite forum phrase) all of my buttons on my workbook appear pushed, ie, the shadows are in the top and left borders, while the highlighs are in the bottom and right borders. (My screen is not upside down )

    If I click-and-hold a button, then drag the mouse off the button (still holding the left-button), it corrects one button, but the other already-corrected button reverts. It's as if these two buttons are toggles of each other.

    The buttons do work, ie, clicking while appearing already pushed still runs the macro, but I just found this curious and odd, and I'm wondering if anyone's come across this or knows of some key-combination I might've accidentally pushed to put buttons in 'reverse' mode?
    Thanks,
    --Jim

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    Re: Buttons appear 'pushed' when they're not?

    Might help to attach the file so we can try to reproduce the behavior. FWIW I have not seen this before.

    Are these Form control buttons, or ActiveX control buttons?

    If they are ActiveX, here is a suggestion which is a total shot in the dark. Right click, select Properties, go to Take Focus on Click, and set it to False.
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    Re: Buttons appear 'pushed' when they're not?

    I was getting ready to strip the data and attach it, the problem ceased to exist in the stripped version.

    So I re-opened the original, problem still there in original, then did save-as again, and problem gone, before stripping data.

    Saving the original again made the probelm go away in the original, but prior saves did not do this.

    I'm thinking now that it may be not directly an Excel issue. A possible suspect is that I have ultra-mon installed for a dual-panel setup, which definitely plays with the gdi, and I also log in from home via RDP which does some goofy gdi stuff because it only shows things in a single rdp monitor, and when I come in to work in the morning all my 'maximized' windows are maximized but only fill about 3/4 of one of the monitors until I un-maximize and then re-maximize.

    However...while I probably should have thought of this monitor/rdp thing first...simply saving the file doesn't close it and re-display it, so that isn't really a monitor/gdi related thing. And I've had ultra-mon for a year or so and never had any such button problems with any other app, and have only had Excel 2007 for a month or so and have had some other goofy excel behaviour and I thought this was just another excel thing.

    So thanks, and sorry for what may be a false-alarm,
    --Jim

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