Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / October 2005

After a blissful, error-free month with Office 2004 (11.2) on a new PB G4
with Tiger 11.4.2, I received my first error message today, and a strange
on.
While working on an Excel file, I went to Excel preferences to turn off the

I need the help of some more experienced Excel users so please feel
free to chime in!
I use office 2004 for Mac.  I inserted a text box into an Excel
document.  Despite setting the text box size and the margins, (most

I have been sent some Workbooks written on a Greek PC in Excel 2003 and
saved in various formats.
I have tried opening them on my Powerbook in OSX 10.4 using Excel v X.
None of the Greek text displays and I can't enter any Greek characters

for example cost of energie
and cost of light bulb it self i need a total of al costs
and there are differnet cost to be condisdered
and i need the difernt light fixtures compared to each other in savings

Version 11.2 sporadically, usually after holding steady with 5-7 files
remembered,  loses all or all but one of the the Recently Used List of
files.   When I check preferences, it still stipulates "9" as the number of
files to remember.

I am considering a new PC / MAC.
I never owned a MAC before but I am tempted to go this way ... it is
just the VBA-comptability that keeps me away.
Googling a bit, there seems to be more that does not work than that is

I am using M$ Office 2004 and keep hyperlinks in spreadsheets from time
to time.
http websites, when clicked, open in Safari just fine, but when I try
to access secure httpS sites Excel:

I'm doing a regression on ERA and Win% from the top 50 strikeout
leaders of all time. That means my data ranges between 2.00-4.00 and
0.4-0.7. Excel has automatically created the range for the x and y axes
on my chart as 0.000-0.8000 (x) and 0.00-4.50 (y). As you can imagine,

Hi Gang-
Was playing with the Forms Toolbar and found that several buttons remain
inactive regardless of what I do. Same situation in Word. These are the ones
that contain 'Edit' in the tip boxes.

When you have a big table of data and wish to filter it for certain
items, you apply the auto filter.  This puts up some arrow buttons,
which when clicked allow you to specify the filter terms.
Also available is "show all" and "top 10".  My query is about "top 10".

Can Excel X open HTML files?
I have a set of HTML files that are produced in Unidata and FTP'd to a
shared space. The pages are designed to be view via a web browser, but
some of my clients wish to use the data in Excel.

I would like to know the break down on the Longitude and Latitude in my
spreadsheet for US region if anyone could explain it?
Longitude: -104:02:09.20
Latitude: 46:03:07.42

I'd like to group the worksheets in a document, then set the print area
yet the Set Print Area option is grayed out after grouping.  Is there a
way to set the print area of multiple documents at once?  All of the
documents are the same format, just personalized for individual

When as a web page, the bold-styled text in the column headings of the
spreadsheet overlap one another somewhat. I have the columns formatted
to AutoFit in Excel (the .xls version), but the text still overlaps
when viewing the web page (the .htm version).  Applying vertical

In the List Manager, there is sometimes a row that does not have a
number but instead a star that is the second-to-last row in the list.
What is it for?