Captions of CommandButtons disappear after buttons are clicked

[elfsprin]

Hello

I have a workbook with 5 sheets; on Sheet1, I have three CommandButtons, each directing to a unique Sub. Each Sub works by performing a semi-complex copy/paste from Sheet1 to one of the other Sheets (3, 4, and 5, respectively).

After clicking on one of the buttons, its Caption seemed to disappear. Because there was actually a very thin, broken, horizontal line of black left behind on the button, I suspected that the BackColor (which is opaque) was actually, somehow, being layered on top of the ForeColor in a glitchy way... but when I made the BackColor Transparent, the Caption did not reappear. I clicked on the other two buttons to see if this behavior would be repeated, and it was: their Captions also disappeared, but in those two cases there was no remaining line of black indicating that the Caption was still present but simply not displaying properly.

I then looked at the properties for each button, and the Caption was still present and unchanged for all three.

Then, for the first button, I was able to fix this by reopening the properties, deleting the last word of the Caption, and retyping it. Now when I click on that button, its caption remains visible. However, I tried this same fix with the other two buttons and it did not work.

Is this happening because excel is having a panic attack due to there being more than one CommandButton on a single sheet? Or are there too many sheets involved... or too many Subs pointing to all those different Sheets? Or is this a known issue with a known fix not related to excel's capacity limitations?

Thank you for any advice you can offer.