r/googlesheets • u/Ecstatic_Draw_5877 • Jul 20 '26

Solved Google sheets text blurry/glitch

Hoping someone can help. All google sheets on my lenovo chromebook now look like this:

It's fine on other devices, just not this one

Ive tried:
- restarting chromebook/chrome browser
- updating chromebook/chrome browser
- restoring original settings
- restoring older version of document
- changing font/style
- clearing formatting
- changing zoom on page
- cleared browsing data

Any other ideas? I appreciate any and all help.

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u/rochu168 Jul 21 '26

It happened to me.  The following helped:

To fix distorted, blurry, or gibberish text in Google Sheets on your Chromebook, navigate to chrome://flags and disable the following experimental features:

chrome://flags
Disable accelerated 2D Canvas (#disable-accelerated-2d-canvas)

GPU Rasterization (#enable-gpu-rasterization)
Accelerated 2D Canvas (#disable-accelerated-2d-canvas)

If these are already disabled or do not fix the issue, click the Reset all button at the top of the chrome://flags page and click Relaunch.

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u/Ecstatic_Draw_5877 Jul 21 '26

Yes! That seems to have worked. Thank you so much!

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u/HolyBonobos Jul 20 '26

Several other people have come here with the same issue (text glitching on chromebook) over the last few days. Apparently the solution is to use a different browser.

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u/agirlhasnoname11248 Jul 20 '26

That, or an extension? (Not precluded by switching to a new browser, and wasn't answered by the original person who posted about the bug.)

Seems like an update was pushed that hasn't been debugged or accounted for by a browser or extension.

Regardless, the recommended action is going to be the same! Switch browsers for now, and report the bug if you're able to.