The Microsoft Excel keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+F5 to Refresh All was one of my favorites until it stopped working. Presently, when I enter that key combination nothing (as far as I can see) happens. I've had to live without it for so long that I can't recall if there was anything specific that was changed prior to it no longer working. Alt+F5 continues to work to Refresh a specific PivotTable, but that has limited value.
The version is Excel 2007.
How can I discover what is preventing Ctrl+Alt+F5 from working and restore its default functionality?
I solved this problem by disabling Intel Graphics hotkeys:
Right-click on the desktop, hover over the menu option "Graphics Options" > "Hot Keys" > click Disable.
I had the exact same issue described above, albeit on Excel 2013 then eventually worked out that the key combination Ctrl+Alt+F5 (as well as other Ctrl+Alt+Fn keys) is reserved by the Intel Graphics control panel. I'd never even noticed this program but it's accessible by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting 'Graphics Properties...'. The Intel Graphics control panel doesn't use Ctrl+Alt+F5 by default, but it still reserves it apparently. I can assure you that disabling the Intel Graphics hot keys allows me to be able to use Ctrl+Alt+F5 in Excel straight away.
Hope that helps!
By the way, this same solution is shown here for a different user problem:
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/hotkeys-Alt-Ctrl-F1-Alt-Ctrl-F5-which-pre-install-application/td-p/1318777
Keyposé is a free download which displays keyboard shortcuts as you use them. This makes sure that your hardware and OS are working as expected. If you see your shortcut appear with this tool (or you can verify Ctrl+Alt+F5 work in other applications another way) then the change must be within Excel itself
You might have more luck posting this on superuser.com
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When creating an Excel file in Office365 including macros that increase and decrease value in a cell depending if you click up or down arrow causes issues when the sheet isn't perfectly aligned with the rows. This has been verified by Microsoft in case 34137940 as a bug - who suggested to ask the question here and reach out to a developer support team member. The problem is that no matter if I click up or down when a row is "visually splitted" the amount increases in the cell.
So what can I do to make this work as intended? I don't want to wait until Microsoft pushes an update. There has to be a solution for me to be able to disable smooth-scrolling somehow?
There is a temporary solution here to solve this by running the below commands to revert to earlier update - but that is not an option in this case since newer features is used as well.
cd %programfiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun\
OfficeC2RClient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.14701.20262
I also tried disabling smooth scrolling in Windows 10 (Link), following the below steps - with no success.
Navigate to System Properties by right clicking **Properties **from my computer.
Click on Advanced and click on Performance settings.
In Visual Effects tab of Performance Options window, click Custom. Then deselect the following items to Disable some unnecessary eye candy:
Uncheck Smooth-scroll list boxes.
I am using a non-US keyboard (Brazilian ABNT2), and some keyboard shortcuts are not working specifically in Gmail running on Windows.
But the same keyboard shortcuts work properly in Gmail running on MacOS.
And also the same keyboard shortcuts work properly in Google Calendar, both in Windows and MacOS.
It seems to be only a Gmail+Windows issue.
I can't use shortcuts with "/" and "" on my Brazilian ABNT2 keyboard, an I believe it's because these keys have a different code/mapping than the same keys in an International-US keyboard:
International-US:
[/ ?] = Key 0x0035 (00_35)
[\ |] = Key 0x002B (00_2B)
ABNT2:
[\ |] = Key 0x0056 (00_56)
[/ ?] = Key: 0x0073 (00_73)
For some reason, these keys produce the correct effect when writing an email. No issues in writing.
But the problem happens when they are used as keyboard shortcuts.
Being more specific with examples, on an ABNT2 keyboard on Gmail+Windows 10:
pressing "?" key does nothing (and should open the Gmail help);
pressing "/" key does nothing (and should move the focus to the search box);
pressing "\" sequence of keys does nothing (and as per my personally configured keyboard shortcuts, should archive the selected email).
Complement 1: These issues are not affecting gmail in my MacOS (everything works properly there). This is happening only in my Windows 10.
Complement 2: this issue is not affecting Google Calendar on Windows 10... Pressing "/" correctly moves the focus to the search box, both in MacOS and Windows 10. So it's clearly some problem in Gmail, not in the hardware.
Any ideas on how I could make these exact keyboard shortcuts to work in Gmail on Windows 10?
Is this a bug, and if yes, is there anyone from Google here that can help to address this issue to be corrected?
Thanks in advance for your reply!
By your description it seems or an hardware issue or some settings in the Gmail account.
Have you checked if the setting for the shortcuts is actually on?
On a computer, go to Gmail.
In the top right, click Settings and then ‘See all settings.’
Click Settings.
Scroll down to the "Keyboard shortcuts" section.
Select Keyboard shortcuts on.
At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.
Keyboard shortcuts for Gmail: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6594
If is not this then I suggest you to do some testing with your hardware.
I tell you this because by experience this doesn't seems like a bug at all for the simple reason that in a Mac works but in a windows it doesn't. Also it is very unlikely that there may be some discrepancy between the gmail web UI and a OS, but rather between the gmail UI and the browser firstly.
Actually by putting in order what you should check first:
Hardware, check by changing the keyboard language in the windows system ---> Switch between languages using the Language bar: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/switch-between-languages-using-the-language-bar-1c2242c0-fe15-4bc3-99bc-535de6f4f258
.2 If doesn't help try on a different Windows computer and with a different Keyboard.
.3 If still not working then use a different Browser (is the browser that is interacting with the webpage, in this case gmail.google.com and not the device OS directly with Gmail).
If then you see then is not solving you may report this by going in the top right corner in gmail.google.com, press the question mark (?) logo and leave a feedback as it would be the best way to directly comunicate with a Googler.
I am using Visual Studio Code with English keyboard layout switched in Windows when programming, but when I am using my computer for general use I use Slovak keyboard layout. Sometimes it can get ridiculous when I switch from one to another multiple times in one minute. Is there a setting (or a plugin) that could set the keyboard layout in VS Code to English while Windows layout is still set to Slovak?
I will summarize for you the solution to this, hope it is still helpful for you or any other looking for this answer:
you have to press Ctrl+Alt+P
then in the display that will appear at the top, write the language you want in case it does not appear
once this is done, VSC will ask you to restart.
once restarted is done it should be fine.
It is the way to do it without changing windows configuration as you will see in ther similar posts.
Hope it helps
I have an Excel workbook shared with other Excel users. When my co-workers and I use our different computers to print the same sheets to PDF, the page breaks differently in the resulting PDF, even though it displays the same in print preview.
We both run Windows 10, Excel 2016, using the same printer driver and printing preferences. I've confirmed the regional settings in our system are the same. No special fonts are included in the workbook. No difference in the AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Excel/XLSTART/.
How can I avoid the layout changes? Is there anything that I might have missed checking? Any help would be appreciated!
If you're both printing the same version of the same document on the same printer, driver, operating system, etc, then you are missing a setting.
Some printer settings are buried pretty deep. Also, were you using the Print Preview or Page Preview when you both viewed it?
I suspect you missed a screen of settings somewhere from the image below, likely the Options... button in the bottom right, which take you into the Manufacturer's settings dialog(s).
Another place to check for settings you may have missed is the control pael. Hit the Windows Key and type printers and hit Enter and make sure you double check every setting in that window and all of the sub-dialogs. Some printers can have hundreds of settings.
If you still can't find a difference, get a third person on a different computer to try printing it. The odd man out of the three of your print jobs, is likely the one with the different setting!
If still no go, please post screen shots.
On Windows, Control Panel -> Display settings on different computers distort how Excel fits cells onto a page from computer to computer in my experience.
Windows7 Control Panel Display Settings
Display settings did it for me. I checked language packs, versions, removed and readded the print to pdf driver packs, the works. I was about to clone the working system to the non working system. The non working system had display scaled 125%....
I have an uncommon issue. I have an Excel file with macros. On all computers it was installed Office 2010 and everything worked fine, but a few days ago every computer was upgraded to Office 2013.
In code, at some point I enable or disable some buttons based on some criterias.
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Lab Orders").OLEObjects("CommandButton1").Enabled = False
On some computers this works fine , but on other computers this button is shown as enabled, and if the user clicks the button nothing happens, not even the animation where the the button is pressed, so it cannot execute the code behind. It's like an image. Any leads, or reasons why this is happening only on certain computers ?
I have this problem after the Office got upgraded. PS. All computers are in the same domain.
LATER EDIT
I changed the code line
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Lab Orders").CommandButton1.Enabled = True
and now I get this error: 438 at this row (I debbuged the file on a computer where this file does not work)
I suspect it's the issue with the latest Office updates - see if this fixes it: http://excelmatters.com/2014/12/10/office-update-breaks-activex-controls/
On all computers where you have the problem, check the box "Trust access to the VBA project object model" located in Options/Trust Center/Macro Settings
(Note that this will only apply to Excel, and if you are having the same problems on other MS Office softwares, you should do the same on them as well)
If that's still not working, read and apply all the checks on this page : https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Enable-or-disable-macros-in-Office-files-12b036fd-d140-4e74-b45e-16fed1a7e5c6
Did not fit as a comment, so:
If I understand you correctly, some computers show the button enabled, while in fact it is disabled, right?
In this case it's normal no button press animation "visibly happens" as Windows knows the button was programmatically disabled.
The same thing happens if you hook a window (which has buttons on it) and send any button a WM to show itself as if it was enabled (while in fact it is not).
The reason it seems enabled on some computers may vary, most probably it's video card and/or driver 'issue', or some "strange alignment" (that particular OS with that particular graphics card & driver and DirectX, as well as those 'special' OLE settings, etc).In both cases, the screen area don't get "refreshed" (invalidated) after the button was disabled - so it seems enabled and gets "repainted" only when there was some user interaction around it. "Lazy redraw", so to speak :)
What one can do is, if it happens to be a serious issue, to find a way on one of these computers to get the button visibly disabled with some 'workaround' (e.g. changing button text after it was disabled -maybe even to exactly the same text-, or move it 1 pixel away and back, call InvalidateRect on it, etc), and apply that solution to your Excel macro.
UPDATE after reading asker's comment:
Oh I see. This could happen if the buttons are in a control array. The issue in this case, however should be present on all computers... Strange.
Anyway. Try to test the buttons' Index property to see if they are part of a control array, just to be sure. If yes:
a) remove them from the array and create buttons "independent" from each other
b) create a bool array and store there enabled/disabled status and write a function that updates buttons' text color property & handles button click event ignore/accept