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

After trying many of the solutions on this and related posts, I discovered that the solution to a different problem that Microsoft had posted also worked reliably for this particular issue when applied in a particular way, at least within the context I'm working within. I experienced these problems in a resolution native to the laptops we have here and on a PC whenever I'd switch to a non-native resolution. Namely, buttons loading at a larger than normal size, getting larger when clicked on, and text and images in these buttons shrinking (and at least the setting for the text remained the same so I couldn't see any way to change it back programmatically or otherwise.) These have not been intermittent problems in my case. I have had intermittent problems though after using print preview which Microsoft has posted a solution for here. I've tried this and it seems to be working.

The solution: For Excel, close the app and delete the MSForms.exd file from C:\Users{UserName}\AppData\Local\Temp\Excel8.0 while in the resolution that you want to view the buttons in. You could also search for other .exd files in your local AppData\Temp folder for other Office apps.

As I mentioned, this is a solution proposed by Microsoft for a different issue - where the buttons stop working after the Dec '14 updates are installed. Here's the link to that article. In that case, it's a one time fix. Here, you may need to do it every time you change resolutions.