Random symbols pop up on screen

We have a user that continues to have these bizarre symbols pop up on her screen. At first we thought it was the video card, so we had it replaced. Unfortunately that did not resolve the issue. We also thought it may be the monitor, but we replaced that as well with no luck. The symbols follow the Excel window. So it only seems to happen inside an excel document on the screen. When she reboots, everything goes back to normal for awhile. Randomly they will reappear while she's working in an excel file. Very strange. Any ideas?
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