Excel: the Incredible Shrinking and Expanding Controls

Question

Occasionally, I\'ll happen across a spreadsheet which suffers from magic buttons or listboxes which get bigger or smaller over time.

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Answer 1

The fixes discussed earlier, programatically resizing/repositioning the Active X Controls after click events, or modifying the registry (with the D word LegacyAnchorResize), didn't solve the issue for me with Excel 2010/ Windows 7 64 bit.

The solution for me was found here:https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/838006

For Excel 2010 the link instructs to:

1. Exit all the programs that are running.
2. Click Start, click Run, in the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. Locate, and then click the following registry key:
4. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\microsoft\office\14.0\common
5. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Key.
6. Type Draw, and then press Enter.
7. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD value.
8. Type UpdateDeviceInfoForEmf, and then press Enter
9. Right-click UpdateDeviceInfoForEmf, and then click Modify. 10.In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
10. On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor.