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Form Control Buttons 'Disappear'--Or Get Sucked into Cells with Data Validation Lists

Asked by bishop3000 in Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software, VB Objects, VB Script

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Hi,
I work on a 6mb Excel spreadsheet that makes heavy use of Form Control buttons for activating macros.
This spreadsheet was developed in Excel 2003, Excel 2004 (for Mac), and Excel 2007.

Lately, one or more macro buttons will disappear from the spreadsheet. Sometimes they will come back after I jump between spreadsheets or zoom in and out--but more often than not, they are gone for good. Saving and reopening does not bring them back.
I haven't been able to detect any patterns in their disappearances.
Under the buttons' Format Control/Properties,  the default 'Move and Size with Cells' is selected.

Also, sometimes when selecting a drop down list in a cell (created via Data Validation), a macro button that I thought was lost appears inside the cell. When this happens, I must delete the embedded button to see the cell's actual contents.

I'm assuming that the two problems mentioned here are related.

Possible solutions are to 1) delete all Form Control buttons and put new ones in their place, and to 2) delete all FC buttons and put toolbar buttons in their place.
Either way, this would be a lot to go through...and I don't know if it will solve the problem. Any other ideas?...or does one of the ideas mentioned here seem logical?

The users of my software are growing impatient with this. Your comments are greatly appreciated.

-Michael

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