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I finally got it fixed and it was a lot simpler than I thought I did another search for white grid lines and there was a link that was provided to a user with similar problem and this was the link Microsoft confirms new Windows 11 issue: some Apps may render Colors Incorrectly - gHacks Tech News...

Thanks, I tried setting the window color but it made no difference perhaps because some unknown personalization settings or other unknown settings I also played with personalization settings and used the contrast mode with solid colors and I got the background to change to gray but that also...

So after the third time of swapping the hard drive into the old pc with windows 7 I finally found why it works there It has nothing to do with the template It has the windows color set to light gray Now the question is does windows 11 have anything like that ? I tried to look at the settings...

Another clue as to perhaps why it's not working I looked at the info for the file that opens with the right click and it says it was created in 2006 so not sure how that can be when the excel is 2010

The thing is that I had visible grid lines when I right click on the old pc with windows 7 I just don't remember how I did it since it was years ago I thought I could do the same on my new pc with windows 11 but I guess it's not so simple But even then the right click was not following the...

Thanks, I think this workaround is good enough for now It's just that I have the habit of using the right click It would have been interesting too find out where is excel launching it from when using the right click Why bother making a template if it's getting bypassed if you right click

Just a quick update I was watching a video about setting up a template and after it was set up the first time it was opened it was still showing the original default spreadsheet He was saying that excel normally opens the default spreadsheet that is built into excel not the template that was...

Well installing it was not a problem but I guess maybe because it's not activated some functionality is lost and I guess saving templates is one of them but that's just a guess Just out of curiosity I moved my hard drive with windows 7 and excel 2010 back into the old pc just to see how it...

I have a license on the old pc but that was with windows 7 installed so I did not want to remove it plus I did not know how anyway I think this shortcut to excel.exe is a good workaround for now I just pinned it to the taskbar So I just have to click on the taskbar instead of using the right...

I tried the repair but it did not change anything After the restart I wanted to make a shortcut to the excel.exe to make it easier to open rather than going to the start programs route so while I was going through the program files I saw another XLSTART folder in office 14 which was empty so I...

I don't have a path for the filename I just have excel12.xlsx

I tried this one and now this one is using different template This is the one from the template folder So I renamed the customXLSTART folder I created earlier and now it only opens the one from the template but again this is with opening the excel.exe file from the programs If I right click to...

This may be a clue I opened it by going to the start all programs and than clicked on the excel program and it opened Book1 so that is one of the templates that I saved I just have to look which one I saved where since I tried saving it different ways But it does not have the normal grid lines...

I was just going to mention that When I click on the .xltx template to save it It jumps the the microsoft\template folder part of the appdata subfolder But I have a copy of the .xltx file there also but still not using that one It's a PC that came with windows 11 and I installed a copy of...

I did all that but it made no difference It still opens without any changes that are on the xltx spreadsheet