Excel: Cell Contents Duplicated in Zoomed View

ID: Q88823

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, cell contents may appear to be repeated, or "ghosted," when your worksheet is zoomed to a magnification other than 100 percent. When this "ghosting" happens, the contents of some cells appear in more than one location on the screen and appear to overwrite the contents of other cells.

This problem may occur only on your screen, or, if you are using a PostScript printer (or other printer that can scale images), it may occur in print preview and on the printed output as well.

WORKAROUNDS

To work around this problem, use the procedure appropriate for your situation:

Method 1: If "ghosting" does not appear on the printed output or in print preview, do the following to change the percentage of the zoom:
  1. From the Window menu, choose Zoom.


  2. In the Custom Magnification box, type 129% (for example) rather than 130%.


Method 2: If this problem occurs in print preview and on the printed output, do the following:
  1. From the File menu, choose Page Setup.


  2. In the Page Setup dialog box, under Scaling (in the lower portion of the dialog box), in the Reduce/Enlarge box, type "100%" (without the quotation marks).


  3. In the Reduce/Enlarge box higher up in the Page Setup dialog box, specify the desired scale.



STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post more information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.


REFERENCES

"Microsoft Excel User's Guide 1," version 4.0, page 255

Additional query words: 4.00 filled zoom fit scale duplicate ghost ghosted Shadow Shadows reduce enlarge LaserWriter DeskWriter 


Keywords          : 
Version           : 
Platform          : 
Issue type        :

Last Reviewed: March 26, 1999