09-09-2011, 10:51 AM
How to fix all Excel files opening as just a grey background (2003 OFFICE)
You may be having an issue that when you open an excel document a grey background appears as if the document is minimised in Excel and a lot of options within word are greyed out.
If you do File > Print preview, can you see your worksheet's data?
After that, try:
Window > arrange > Tiled
If that didn't work...
Tools > Options > General > Ignore other applications (uncheck it)
and.. as a last resort
Close Excel and go to start > run then type "excel /unregserver"
then
"excel /regserver"
The /unregserver and /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's factory defaults.
You may be having an issue that when you open an excel document a grey background appears as if the document is minimised in Excel and a lot of options within word are greyed out.
If you do File > Print preview, can you see your worksheet's data?
After that, try:
Window > arrange > Tiled
If that didn't work...
Tools > Options > General > Ignore other applications (uncheck it)
and.. as a last resort
Close Excel and go to start > run then type "excel /unregserver"
then
"excel /regserver"
The /unregserver and /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's factory defaults.