Cannot see what I am typing in the cell in Excel?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi Folks,

I am a newbie convert from PC to Mac and am just getting to grips with Excel for Mac.

One of the issues I am finding, which I don't know how to 'fix', is that when I am typing something in a cell in Excel I cannot see what I am typing (you can see what you are typing in Excel for Windows, so this is somewhat new to me!).

I am working around this by having the formula bar turned on, so I can look up at the formula bar and see what I am typing, but I'm wondering if there's some minor config change that's possible so you can see what you're actually typing in the cell itself?

If not, has this been reported to MS as a bug?

Many thanks for any help/pointers folks.

Regards,

Geoff

Excel Preferences -> Edit -> "double-click allows editing directly in the cell". Please make sure this checkbox is checked.

Thanks,
XinXin
Macintosh Business Unit, Microsoft

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> Hi Folks,
>
> I am a newbie convert from PC to Mac and am just getting to grips with Excel for Mac.
>
> One of the issues I am finding, which I don't know how to 'fix', is that when I am typing something in a cell in Excel I cannot see what I am typing (you can see what you are typing in Excel for Windows, so this is somewhat new to me!).
>
> I am working around this by having the formula bar turned on, so I can look up at the formula bar and see what I am typing, but I'm wondering if there's some minor config change that's possible so you can see what you're actually typing in the cell itself?
>
> If not, has this been reported to MS as a bug?
>
> Many thanks for any help/pointers folks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geoff