Excel or Macbook problem?

[jasonkgreen]

I don't know if this is an Excel or a Macbook problem.

Sometimes when I enter data into a cell, the data won't show unless I either highlight a different cell or I flip over to another program/app and then back to Excel. I would understand if this were an older Macbook, but this thing is barely a month old.

Are there any known issues with Excel for Macs?

 

[Special-K99]

"...the data won't show unless I either highlight a different cell or I flip over to another program/app and then back to Excel..."

So if you wanted to type 12345 into a cell, as you're typing 1 2 3 4 5 those characters are not appearing on screen ?

 

[jasonkgreen]

"...the data won't show unless I either highlight a different cell or I flip over to another program/app and then back to Excel..."

So if you wanted to type 12345 into a cell, as you're typing 1 2 3 4 5 those characters are not appearing on screen ?

That is correct. They won't appear until I hit Enter and move to another cell.

 

[Special-K99]

Macro running the background somewhere?

Same problem here, caused by conditional formatting
https://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/excel-2007-nothing-shows-up-in-the-cell-while-im-typing.3510188/

Similar problems here
https://social.technet.microsoft.co...2013-unable-to-type-in-cell?forum=officeitpro

 

[Jon Peltier]

What version of Excel?

If you're in the Insiders program, there are sometimes glitches, and this sounds like a glitch from not too long ago. Try to update Excel to get around this.