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For some reason, popup windows requiring dialogue are transparent, e.g. "Hide/Unhide" worksheets in a workbook. Eventually they appear normal, but very annoying. Affects other popup boxes as well.
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It has to do with the transparency effects in settings-accessibility-visual effects-transparency effects in Windows 11. If you turn this option off, the problem goes away. Seems like a Windows 11 problem but not sure it's not really an Office problem.
Thank you.
Great idea but did not work at all for me. When exactly did we become beta testers?
I have the same problem with excel2021 running on new computer with windows 11. Is there a permanent fix/patch?
Hey Everyone,
I have tried the below-mentioned two steps suggested by Microsoft and my issue has been resolved. Now I can not see any transparent delayed pop-ups. The Excel is working fine now.
As the problem (pop-up dialogue windows transparent) can be caused by different reason, I will appreciate you can try the normal troubleshooting steps 1 by 1 below and tell us the result.
1.You can open your Excel applications in safe mode to check whether it related to add-ins:
Right-click the Start button (lower-left corner) in Windows and click Run.
In the Runbox, type the command: excel /safe, and click OK.
Note: To stop Office Safe Mode, exit and restart your Office application. It will start in normal mode unless there's a problem opening the application.
If this situation disappeared in Safe Mode, then this issue could be caused by the incompatible add-ins, you can disable add-ins by this way: Open Excel>add-ins>Disable add-ins. For reference: disable application add-ins and COM add-ins
2.Try disabling hardware graphics acceleration for Excel application
start Excel application>click on the File tab> Options>Advanced> under Display select/click the Disable hardware graphics acceleration check box.