Loss of formatting

[Marc Ireland's office computer]

Hi, I'm Marc. I am using the Windows XP operating system with Office 2007.

The problem I'm having is a perplexing one. Lately I have been copying and
pasting numerical information from one excel document into another. I'll be
going along and than all the sudden the eight rectangles in the "Styles"
category on the "Home" Tab will go bezerk. The first rectangle displays "--",
the second "--10", the third "--11", the fourth "--12", but anyways just
weird symbols that don't look normal. I than save my work to go do something
else but when I open the excel document back up, all of my formatting is
gone. The actual numerical information I inputted is still there but the
formatting is completely gone. It gets really frustrating because I than have
to start over only to have the same thing reoccur. I know this kind of sounds
off the wall but I've been trying to fix it and nothing seems to be working.

 

[ecellis]

I am having a problem much like yours. When I try opening the problem file I
get errors and all formatting is gone.

I am curious, do you use multiple monitors and have excel opened twice (one
for each workbook?) Then after copy and pasting for a few minutes excel
starts acting strange and slows down. Eventually pasting data doesn't appear
in the destination cell. I am really dissappointed in Office 02007. Seems
like the new stuff out of Microsoft (Vista, Office 07, etc.) is even more
buggy that before!

 

[Bill]

My problem is very much like yours. I use two monitors with two copies of
excel open and after I copy and paste data from one to another and then save
and reopen the file and all the formatting is gone. My system does not slow
down like yours does though. I used Microsoft's e-mail support and sent them
the files and they saw my problem but came back and said the file is
corrupted but this happens to numerous files when I do this copy and paste
between monitors

If I do the same thing with just one monitor and one version of excel open
then everthing is fine and no formatting is lost?

Bill