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Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / May 2008Excel 2008 Freezes
I found that Excel 2008 freezes whenever I double-click on an Excel file to open it. I have a MacBook Pro with 4Gb of RAM installed. I found that this does not happen if I open a file through the File menu in Excel. On Mar 8, 10:50 pm, NickKenye...@gmail.com wrote: > I found that Excel 2008 freezes whenever I double-click on an Excel > file to open it. I have a MacBook Pro with 4Gb of RAM installed. I > found that this does not happen if I open a file through the File menu > in Excel. I find that my macbook pro freezes SOLID, when I try and copy and paste from certain Excel sheets. Then of course, I have to power off, you can't force quit for the life of you so Asta La Vista to any other data you have unsaved in other apps. Worse, when I reboot and then try and restart excel, it tries to recover the 'bad' spreadsheets and locks all over again. I called Microsoft and they had a rediculous solution - telling me I had to copy the contents of each spreadsheet into a new work sheet. Of course, all of these spreadsheets (I have several hundred) were created in Windows based various Excel versions and even earlier Mac based Excel versions. No problems with those spreadsheets in my windows systems. joel.lovell@gmail.com On Mar 12, 1:02 pm, joel.lov...@gmail.com wrote: > On Mar 8, 10:50 pm, NickKenye...@gmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > joel.lov...@gmail.com This JUST happened to me a few hours ago. I was trying to move the formula bar below the menu items because it seemed very unorthodox to have the formula bar ABOVE the menu bar and it locked up the entire system. Plus, this happened even after I ran the 12.0.1 update. I'm also running a Santa Rosa MBP with 4GB RAM. I can't believe that it actually locked up the entire system! MacOS X should be preventing this from happening. But iTunes kept playing in the background, but I couldn't do anything and just had to cold boot the machine. Too bad that Crash Reporter didn't seem to catch the problem so that it could be reported. > This JUST happened to me a few hours ago. I was trying to move the > formula bar below the menu items because it seemed very unorthodox to [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > that Crash Reporter didn't seem to catch the problem so that it could > be reported. Same thing just happened to me, Penryn MBP and EXACTLY the same symptoms and results. Nice to know I'm not the only one and there's no problem with the machine. It's the first time I've had to force restart in OS X outside of acknowledged kernel panics, and that's talking since 10.1.2. Nice going. Please search this newsgroup for other similar reports. This is an Apple OS driver bug that affects machines with Nvidia graphics cards. Thanks, Pat On 4/1/08 3:56 PM, in article E2AF2562-816B-4121-9EB5-CBE964548831@microsoft.com, "Martin" >> This JUST happened to me a few hours ago. I was trying to move the >> formula bar below the menu items because it seemed very unorthodox to [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > machine. It's the first time I've had to force restart in OS X outside of > acknowledged kernel panics, and that's talking since 10.1.2. Nice going.  SignaturePat McMillan Macintosh Business Unit Microsoft Corp. This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights. > Please search this newsgroup for other similar reports. This is an Apple OS > driver bug that affects machines with Nvidia graphics cards. [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > machine. It's the first time I've had to force restart in OS X outside of > > acknowledged kernel panics, and that's talking since 10.1.2. Nice going. Indeed, thanks for the follow-up. After posting here I went back to searching (after having it happen again :( ) - now eagerly awaiting the fix(es) from Apple and maybe combined with MS :). Cheers. Thanks. Just to be clear, the fix will definitely be coming from Apple (not MS) because it is their issue. I'll make sure to post to this group when their fix is released. Thanks, Pat On 4/1/08 11:39 PM, in article 27F2CB4C-700F-4AE0-B5D5-B9DBF3A7D37E@microsoft.com, "Martin" >> Please search this newsgroup for other similar reports. This is an Apple OS >> driver bug that affects machines with Nvidia graphics cards. [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Cheers. SignaturePat McMillan Macintosh Business Unit Microsoft Corp. This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights. > Thanks. Just to be clear, the fix will definitely be coming from Apple (not > MS) because it is their issue. I'll make sure to post to this group when [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > > > Cheers. I too am having system crashes when resizing some spreadsheets in Excel 2008 (for mac) and the only recovery option is re-booting the system. System details: Model Name: MacBook Pro Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz OS: OS X version 10.5.2 Are you sure this is an Apple driver issue? Any further developments on correcting this behavior? Thank you in advance. Regarding this question: "Are you sure this is an Apple driver issue?" Does this thread convince you: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1460752&tstart=0 Thanks, Pat On 5/4/08 6:40 PM, in article 275DC2BC-584F-4E0B-AD94-5B917A34D1CB@microsoft.com, "alatta" >> Thanks. Just to be clear, the fix will definitely be coming from Apple (not >> MS) because it is their issue. I'll make sure to post to this group when [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > Any further developments on correcting this behavior? > Thank you in advance. SignaturePat McMillan Macintosh Business Unit Microsoft Corp. This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights. <snip> On 5/4/08 9:40 PM, in article 275DC2BC-584F-4E0B-AD94-5B917A34D1CB@microsoft.com, "alatta" > the only recovery option is re-booting the system <snip> When something like this happens have you tried Command+Tabbing to a different application (if there's one running) or to Finder, then using the Apple Menu> Force Quit? Or Command+Option+esc? One of the major advantages of OS X is that one app misbehaving "shouldn't" necessitate a restart of the system, and through Beta Testing as well as a number of other "unorthodox" & experimental operations I've not found it to fail. The only exception being when I had some sort of catastrophic directory structure damage early on in 10.4 that I still can't explain - so severe that neither Disk Utility, TechToolPro nor Disk Warrior were able to resolve it - even Finder was locked up tight. In that instance I wound up having to reformat the HD & completely reinstall everything. HTH |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac |
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