Microsoft Excel 2010 alt-tab causes part of screen to freeze

One of my clients is having the issue above. When he opens 2 different Excel applications, and starts doing usual work, which involves copy-paste from one Excel to the other one, and changes between them using alt-tab, then all of a sudden part of one Excels
screen freezes and you can see the cells being at the wrong place. When you minimize the window and then come back to it, then it's fixed, or when you scroll down and back up it will fix itself. I have found other people having the same problem on the forum,
but the only thing I haven't tried is getting a new graphics card installed instead of the Intel HD one. I even tried uninstalling the Intel HD driver, letting Windows use some default driver, but the problem persisted even then.
The machine has Windows 7 installed, Office 2010. Hardware is standard Lenovo T420.
Since I've tried everything and the problem is still not fixed I'm hoping for some more ideas.
PS: I'm 100% sure not using alt-tab would fix the issue, or reverting to Office 2007, but those fixes are not acceptable for my client.

check out thread below, it suggests this thing:
I experienced the exact thing you are describing and it was very annoying. I eventually found an
option under File - Options - Advanced, in the Display category, called "Show all windows in the Taskbar". Uncheck this and alt-tab will stop trying to interpret each spreadsheet in the same instance of Excel as a different application. Then
to switch between spreadsheets in the same excel instance, use ctrl-tab instead.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/c3e73faf-81fa-425a-95d7-d33219d8ff02/multiple-instances-of-the-same-excel-document-in-alttab-list?forum=w7itproui
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