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Microsoft Office 2010 codenamed Office 14 is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. Office 2010 was released to manufacturing. My application is using some form controls, especially checkboxes which are hidden or unhidden per code. And the cells containing the controls are also hidden or unhidden per code. The error in Excel 2. Hide the form controls per code Visible False. Hide the rows containing the controls. Save and close the workbook. Open the workbook again. The form controls are now all on top and lost their original positions. This problem does not appear in Excel 2. Now, for getting sure that this is actually a problem of Excel 2. I wrote a small sample application, which positioned 9 checkboxes as shown in the screenshots below. Please note, that I haved used the german version of Excel for the screenshots as the english version of Excel 2. The properties for each control are set to Move but dont size with cells in German Nur von Zellposition abhngig. The two screenshots below show the worksheet in Excel 2. Download Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010 and PowerPivot in Excel 2013 Samples from Official Microsoft Download Center. Step by step instructions on how to create a Box and Whisker Plot in Excel 2010. Note This method doesnt work if the min, max, or any of the quartile. Excel 2. 01. 0 in the initial state without any influence from VBA code. Then I created the two procedures Hide. Checkboxes and Show. Checkboxes in a module and linked them to the two buttons. The relative simple code just hides or unhides the controls and the rows. Public Sub Hide. Checkboxes. Dim n As Long. With This. Workbook. Active. Sheet. For n 1 To. Shapes. Count. If Not. Shapesn. Form. Control. Type lt 1 Then. Shapesn. Visible False. Range2 1. Download Supernatural Season 9 Episode 1 Via Torrent. Advance%20Excel.png' alt='Excel 2010 English Version' title='Excel 2010 English Version' />Entire. Row. Hidden True. This. Workbook. Save. Public Sub Show. Checkboxes. Dim n As Long. With This. Workbook. Active. Sheet. For n 1 To. Shapes. Count. If Not. Shapesn. Form. Control. Excel 2010 English Version' title='Excel 2010 English Version' />Type lt 1 Then. Shapesn. Visible True. Range2 1. 2. I can verify that this is a problem in the English version. In fact, you do not necessarily need all the VBA code. We manually entered a column of check boxes linked. Describes the Excel 2010 issues that are fixed in the hotfix package that is dated August 31, 2010. Entire. Row. Hidden False. This. Workbook. Save. If the procedure linked to the button Hide is called and the workbook saved, closed and reopened, the you can see the results as shown in the following screenshots for Excel 2. Excel 2. 01. 0. As you can see, all controls are stacked in Excel 2. If you display the property Top. Left. Cell for each control in a Msg. Box, you will notice that in Excel 2. C3, C4, C5, are correct. Excel 2. 01. 0 overwrites this property to C2 directly after hiding the controls and if you save and close the workbook, the value C2 is saved and all previous values are lost. This logically leads to an incorrect positioning of the controls when openening the file again. An interesting behavious is that Top. Left. Cell can be restored unless the workbook is not saved and closed. The file is stored in the Open XML Format, therefore we can rename the file to. Depending on whether the file was created with Excel 2. Excel 2. 01. 0, the archive contains different files a folder called drawings. The next screenshot shows an excerpt of the content of the two files drawing. Drawing. 1. vml for the Excel 2. Let have look to the vml. Drawing. 1. vml file, if you open the file with an text editor you can easily find the sections for the checkboxes. The word Anchor suggests the cell that is used for positioning the checkbox. And if we compare the values for Anchor from the file for Excel 2. Excel 2. 01. 0, we can notice that after hiding the controls in Excel 2. In the file for Excel 2. If you manually restore these values in the file vml. Drawing. 1. vml for Excel 2. XLSX file and open the file in Excel 2. However, if you open the file in Excel 2. I think, the vml. Drawing. 1. vml file remained for compatibilty reasons in Excel 2. The file drawing. The values differs from the values for unhidden controls. I had experimented a little by changing some values to the values for unhidden controls. Unfortunately it was not possible for me to restore the original positions for the controls. Finally I tested some other form controls. Excel 2. 01. 0 has the same behaviour if you use comboboxes, radiobuttons or buttons. If you use buttons, it may happen that the buttons are reduced to a line, so someone may think they were removed. If this behavious was not intentionally developped by the Office 2. Especially since this behavior has from my point of view no significant advantages. You can avoid this problem by storing the position of the controls an a data sheet, for example, and, when unhidung the controls, set their original positions per code. This article has also been published on my other blog www. German Version of the Excel Ticker blog.