PowerMap 3D Maps series don't appear coloured

[rluther]

Hey I'm using excel 2016 3d maps and I have my data in and I can see the series when I click on them but they appear blank. I can tell its using the data properly because the bubbles are different sizes. The layer options has it coloured and opacity is at 100%. I'm not sure what I'm missing but something is clearly not working properly. The only way I can see my data coloured is if I choose heat map. I can't find much info on how to use excels power maps and I've checked the Microsoft guide with little info. Please help I need to do some complex mapping with this but I cant even get this to work. Thanks in advance.

Also sorry I'm a total nube I have no idea how to add screen shots to this post.

 

[rluther]

I've followed others tutorials with example files and I it looks like when I do the exact same process excel is just not colouring the series like it says it is. I'm at the point where I think I may need to reinstall excel because there must be something wrong with the program in its entirety. Has anyone experienced this or can anyone point me in the direction of someone who has experienced a similar issue?

It seams that heat maps are the only thing that will display on the map. Do I need to format my data differently or something? I've added all of it to the data model as a powerpivot. I assumed it was formatted correctly because it works with heat maps but maybe there is something wrong with the input data?

Please help I'm losing my hair by the minute...

 

[Matt Allington]

Are you using a virtual machine or something else that affects screen acceleration? I had a problem with VM in the past. Power Map Not Working - Solved -

 

[rluther]

Yes! That must be it. I'm running Windows 7 on my Macbook through Parallels. Thank you so much for your reply!