Excel 2013 Power Map Preview Issue

Hi-
I used power map to make some great data visualizations-it looked amazing and the interactivity was fantastic. Now, when I open up my spreadsheet, or try to create a new one, the land forms are missing. It looks like the world was flooded. My
data points still show up, but I cannot seem to get the land to show up unless I zoom in quite a bit (making it less useful). It appears to be having trouble rendering the bing map, I have attempted changing the theme, but that does not help. I
also tried repairing the install.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks,
Jesse
Jesse A. Brandenburg

Ok ,now I have no idea for this problem. How about if you add the Bing Maps app for office, will it work?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/store/bing-maps-WA102957661.aspx
Maybe try to disable hardware graphics acceleration(File->Options->Advanced->check the option 'disable...') .
Or use another user account to log on this computer to test this issue.
In addition, you could try to submit a new question to the forum below:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=powermap
Best Regards,
Wind

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