Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / April 2005

I am one frustrated converter.  I miss the fact that in Windows I can avoid
using the mouse except for formatting.  I have found many of the similar
keyboard shortcuts (after much exploring) BUT I haven¹t found anyway to
access the Menu bar directly on a mac without using the *@$# ...

Avoiding ³Select²
I¹ve done this so often before, doing something without actually going there
­ for the moment my mind has gone blank ­ please convert and forgive me for
such trivia!

The Find Method in Visual Basic Help gives the example copied below - I
cannot work out how to use it for my needs which are:
Where X = a numeral from 1 to 9
Find X within (say) B2:B10

My Formatting palete opens way off screen where I can't get to it with
the pointer to drag it back.  I've increased my screen resolution to
see if I can see it , but nooo.
Any suggestion?

This happened in my last version of Office:Mac. It's the same way in
Office: Mac 2004.
I can't resize my toolbars so I can see all of my tools. The toolbars
don't even go halfway across my desktop. I have tried grabbing the

I've discovered a bug in the conditional formatting in Mac Office 2004
with all the latest service packs. I've tested on a Windows version of
Office and it doesn't have this bug.
I've made a demo spreadsheet available at

I have OfficeX and have a problem in Excel. The Formatting Pallette has
started disappearing below the bottom of the screen. It is completely
unclickable below the bottom right part of the screen. This occurrs on
all spreadsheets and started after doing a back up with Carbon Copy

Microsoft, bless their hearts, has decided that in Excel the "Find"
dialog is modal. Worse, command-W doesn't close the find dialog. Even
worse, NO command key equivalent closes the find dialog. In desperation,
I tried to make an Applescript that would do it.

I hope someone can help me with this. I have a pivot table that tracks
golf scores for a number of players on a number of courses. Players
runs down the side (i.e., row headings), date across the top (column
headings) and course is the page heading. The data section contains

I have a mailing list in a WORD text file that I went to import into an
Excell worksheet.   I have 425 entries like this:
Name
Company

Since I updated Microsoft Office 2004 with the newest update I get an
error message by closing the application Excel.
< Compile error in hidden module: autoExec >
Please tell what wrong and how to solve this.

I'm nit sure how to use Onkey
I would like to be able to enter a single character into, or pass over, each
cell of a 9x9 box - the while/wend to set across and down is no prob but
will Onkey terminate at the end of the proceedure - it must or I'm in

Every time I open Excel it thinks this is the first time. I've tried
throwing away the preferences, which works once, then it goes back to
telling me that this is the first time.
I'm running Excel 11.1.1 and Mac OS X 10.3.8 on an iMac G5.