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    Buttons won't display in Excel

    I can create buttons and attach macros that will all work- but the buttons remain invisible on the worksheet. Moving the cursor over them turns cursor to finger point. Some Pivot table sheets I use are highly reliant on buttons to get data or refresh etc so it is important to get these visible again on my setup.
    The problem surfaced when I, reluctantly, moved from Win7 to win10 pro.
    I suspected the graphics driver (AMD Radeon HD7800 card) so downloaded the latest from the AMD site and installed by using the AMD uninstall tool and the autodetect and install tool, Both worked well and the latest driver is installed. But it didn't fix the problem.
    Re-installed office. no change.
    What may be another aspect of the same problem is that if I disable Hardware Graphics acceleration in Options - all my Office screens immediately become unreadable and I have to use shortcut keys to restore proper display by unchecking "disable hardware graphics etc.
    All other PCs in the office run win10 and Office 365 and have not had the same issue.
    There is not much point in supplying a sample worksheet as it will work OK on a different pc . I tested this by creating a sheet with buttons on mine and copying that sheet to other pcs. All displayed the buttons.
    Try swapping out the graphics Card??
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    Re: Buttons won't display in Excel

    Moving the cursor over them turns cursor to finger point.
    Do they still run if you click them?

    You may have an ActiveX issue. Are you using ActiveX buttons? If so, just to diagnose this, I would try adding a couple of Forms buttons and see if that suffers the same problem.
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    Re: Buttons won't display in Excel

    Just Form Buttons. I just now tried putting an ActiveX button on a work sheet and it remains visible. I think must be a hardware issue- I just cant get my head around why it only appears in Office and not in my other programs like InDesign or Corel or AccountRight.
    Perhaps this thread would be more appropriate to a technical forum??

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    Re: Buttons won't display in Excel

    That surprises me. ActiveX controls have some hiccups in some environments, but Forms controls are usually more predictable. I am not sure how this could be a hardware issue but it is probably something in the guts of your system rather than something that can be addressed through the Excel user interface. You might try running Repair on Office.

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