Microsoft Excel 2010 has overlaying, duplicate screens

My clients Microsoft Excel 2010 is showing two copies of the page on top of each other. This shows a confusing image. I scanned his hard drive and it is good. He is operating on a Dell E5420 with 4GB of RAM. I would attach a screenshot
but MS won't let me until my account is verified.

Re: seeing double
Maybe there is a picture of the sheet on top of the actual sheet.
Try clicking each of the "sheets" and pressing the delete key.
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