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XL2000: Zooming 39% or Less Changes the Worksheet Appearance


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Symptoms

If you click Zoom on the View menu to reduce or enlarge the appearance of the active worksheet, and you select a zoom value of 39 percent or less, gridlines are no longer visible.

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Cause

In Microsoft Excel 2000, gridlines are not displayed when the zoom value is 39 percent or less. When you select a zoom value of 40 percent or greater, gridlines reappear.

NOTE: Cell borders are displayed at all zoom settings.

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More information

In Microsoft Excel, you can specify a zoom value that is between 10 percent (text appears one-tenth the normal size) and 400 percent (text appears four times the normal size).

Named Range Identification

When you set the zoom setting for a worksheet to 39 percent or less, a defined name that consists of a cell range of two or more adjacent cells appears in a rectangle on the screen.

For example, if the defined name "Range1" refers to the range D1:E20, a rectangle containing the word "Range1" appears over the cell range, and the values of the cells in the named range appear in the rectangle.

NOTE: When you click Zoom on the View menu and select a value of 40 percent or greater, rectangles that identify named ranges disappear.

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Keywords: KB211456, kbprb

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Article Info
Article ID : 211456
Revision : 3
Created on : 10/8/2003
Published on : 10/8/2003
Exists online : False
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