No typed numbers coming up on excel sheet

[db]

Suddenly we cannot get the right hand numbers on the keyboard to register in
an new Excel sheet and previous sheets will not accept new work on them in
one of our two user accounts only. This is being done also on old Works
spreadsheets. The Works file has beeb uninstalled and reinstalled but there
is no improvement. The numbers along the top will appear! Have we turned
something off inadvertently somehow? We would be glad of any opinions. db

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

Num-Lock turned off, perhaps?

Bernie

 

[Dave Peterson]

So you see the digits in the formula bar, but you don't see them in the cells on
the worksheet?

And you can select a different cell and then come back and the cell still looks
empty?

Could it be that you have a funny number format?
Format|cells|number tab and choose General
to test it

Could it be that you have a font color the same as the background color?
Format|cells|Font or pattern and change colors

Could it be that you have a funny conditional format?
Format|conditional formatting
and delete all the rules

Do you use multiple monitors?
There have been some people who complained that the text would appear in the
formula bar, but not in the cell in the worksheet.

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mi...isplay+group:*excel*&rnum=16#7109488256478b2d

or

http://snipurl.com/1crbf

Mike Brambley posts a link to a suggestion that worked for him.

 

[db]

Many thanks to both responders. The num lock was turned off !! db