Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / July 2008

Holding the Shift key while you open the file may allow you to get the file
open, but that's one of the less common issues. If you continue to have a
problem make sure to specify what your XL update level is & include an exact
description of what happens when you attempt to open the file.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

On 7/9/08 6:51 PM, in article 59b53b54.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,

I am having a similar problem.
I've been humming along for the past few days, after having switched to Mac.

Today I've encountered a file, without any strange characters in the fiename, that won't open.

I tried your suggestion of holding the SHIFT key while trying to open, and that didnt' do anything.

The Exact description of what happens for me when I attempt to open the file is: Nothing. Nothing happens good. Nothing happens bad. The file doesnt' open.

For what it's worth, NeoOffice opened the file without any issue.
I saved it with a new file name with an xls extension, and Excel will not open the new file either

I tried with an xlt extension and Excel will not open it

I saved as a NeoOffice file, then resaved as Excel, and Excel will still not open it.

Suggestions?

The file was created with: Excel 97-2004 and is 252kb

Thanks
Marion

My sister is able to open the file using Mac Excel 2004.
She saved it with a new name and sent it back to me.
I cannot open the new file.

Suggestions?

PS - My sister was able to open the file using her Mac-Excel 2004
She saved it with a new name, and sent it back to me
I can't open that file either

Hi Bob and Bob

1. The filename is really bland... it is simply: Datapeople.xls

2. I have tried opening it by double-clicking from Finder, and also via Excel->File->Open. Neither do anything.

3. I am using, and have been using, Office 12.1.1

4. I copied and pasted the file and renamed it. The copy will not open

5. For what it's worth, I can preview the contents.

6. The file will not open

OK. We opened the file on the PC using Excel 2007. Then saved it as an xlsx file - we got an error message but saved it.

I can open the xlsx file on the Mac.

So, I must have some glitch in the file that Excel 2007 was able to fix for me.

Thanks!

I am having the exact same problem with files that have no slashes or backslashes. Am running Mac OS 10.5.3 and Office is 12.1.1.

I solved the problem by re-installing Office 2008 (12.0.0) so clearly this problem is related to the 12.1.1 update.

Please advise on solution if anyone knows. In the meantime i will stay at 12.0.0 and not update.

Thx