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Excel - text - underlining display problem

Anonymous
2020-01-25T22:15:50+00:00

I'm using Excel for Mac 16.33. I'm finding that underlined text in longstanding spreadsheets now appears as if it has 'strikethrough'. Despite trying all sorts of formatting options - cell/row height changes, alignment etc... - I can't resolve the matter. Any ideas?

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  1. Bob Jones AKA CyberTaz MVP 434.8K Reputation points
    2020-01-28T16:44:11+00:00

    PMFJI, but this has all the earmarks of being a duplicate/corrupt font issue... especially if it doesn't occur when displayed on another computer - Mac or PC. What happens if you select that cell & change the font? If that resolves the issue it's another indicator that it's a font issue.

    Run Apple's Font Book to Validate your fonts & to Resolve Duplicates, then restart your Mac to see whether that resolves it.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-01-26T15:45:18+00:00

    Hi Marj

    Strikethrough unchecked - and the line through the '2.00' disappears when I uncheck Underline i.e. the line is the result of underlining. I've tried varying cell and row height, and altering vertical alignment, but to no avail - still get the underline through the '2.00'!

    Perplexing... any other ideas?

    Yours appreciatively 

    Ken

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-26T11:24:42+00:00

    I see, Can you check if strikethrough was uncheck ;

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/where-...

    if it was, kindly adjust the height of a cell, if you don't want to adjust the height go to alignment and select top align.

    Have a nice day !

    -Regards,

    Marj :)

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-26T11:07:20+00:00

    Hi Marj

    Screenshot showing an example of the problem - the number in red is underlined, but looks more like strikethrough to me - and alignment within the cell is at odd with what I've set.

    Any suggestions much appreciated.

    Yours

    Ken

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-25T23:34:36+00:00

    Hello

    Thanks for reaching out.

    And I'll be happy to help you out today.

    Can you provide a screenshot or better a copy of your file uploaded in Onedrive or Google sheet and paste the link here?;

    it would be a great help to investigate the issue.

    Have a nice day !

    -Regards,

    Marj :)

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