
If not, at least I hope I've helped somebody out there with this. What they have in common is their licenses were recently upgraded from Business to E3.
#How to lock underline in excel install#
Uninstall, reboot, install 32-bit, reboot.Īnybody experience something similar before? Could this be resolved in fewer steps? I'm about to go do this on a bunch of machines now.Uninstall Office 32-bit, reboot and install Office 64-bit, reboot again.Really clumsy that we have to check both places. Uninstall multiple entries of Office from Windows 10 Settings - Apps, as well as from Control Panel - Programs & Features.


or found Office-free nirvana.Īnyway, what seems to have solved the problem is: The combination of bold, italic, and underline effects really make the information more readable. In the example below, you can see a simple financial statement for a freelancer, before and after I apply basic formatting. The person asking the question mysteriously disappearing in the middle of the conversation. Adding an underline is ideal for a summary cell, like a subtotal or conclusion. I found many discussions on Excel crashing when trying to format text, but they all led nowhere.

The event log listed mso.dll as the failing library, but no Googling helped in finding a resolution to the problem. Trying to set bold text with Ctrl+B immediately caused Excel to crash. Also, trying to save a file, the "browse" button no longer did anything. Like the title says, multiple users were experiencing hangs and crashes when trying to format cells to bold or italic. I wanted to put this somewhere, and as Microsoft closes their support forum threads even when people haven't resolved their issues, I might as well post it here.
