I just received a new computer at work with the latest versions of Windows and Office. I am currently working with three Excel documents, all created in the older version of Excel, all have multiple tabs, all have the same formatting (same font, same %, same cells with borders).

Yesterday I printed one tab from one of the documents (let’s call it “DocA”) and some of the border lines disappeared and the typeface looked heavier and a little fuzzy. I didn’t notice the change until it happened again in the second and third documents (“DocB” and “DocC”). And with DocB and DocC it was only certain tabs – not all tabs. What’s really interesting is when I went to print the imperfect tab from DocA today, it came out fine.

Also, this is not a printer issue. I’ve printed these imperfect tabs to a Sharp and an HP and the imperfections followed to either printer.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi
There should be no difference in formatting from an earlier version of Excel to a later vesion.
However I would suggest that the first thing to do is to open the files created in earlier versions of Excel and then save them in the current version.
This may resolve your issues.
Failing that you may need to reassign the formatting once you have saved in the latest version.
Hope this helps.
Good luck.
Tony(OTPM)

Hi Tony,

Thanks for your response.

I did as you suggested and saved it in the new format and reassigned the formatting. It still did not work.

I'm uploading a screenshot for reference.


Thanks,
Elana (EW-ARRI)

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