Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / March 2006

Excel opens the files mach and mach.sys in read-only mode in two,
separate worksheets every time I start it. (Files from the root of my
OS X drive)
Trashing Excel's preferences had no effect.

Looking for different ideas on how to do this,  I have gotten one so far,
just checking.  
Is there a way each time you open a worksheet the number advances,  for
instance,  we are using the excel program to generate bill of ladings for our

Hi people,
I was working on some Excel macro's in Office 2004 for the Mac, where
had some trouble with the clipboard. As I understand, the Mac clipboar
is a lot harder to empty than the Windows version (wher

I have some shared workbooks created in a previous version of excel.
When trying to open in E2004, the open progress bar comes up, but the
file doesnt open. There is no error message - nothing happens.
I can force these topen in E vX withou any problems.

Not to be confused with changing a cell's border color in general, is
there a way to change the color a cell's border becomes when clicking
on it?  For instance, when I click on a cell on my iMac G5 using Excel
2004, the cell's border becomes light blue as a visual indication of

Is it possible to record a Macro and at the end of it have a message to
instruct the users of the file what to do.  Example:  I have a Macro
recorded that brings in my information in cube form from Great Plains
and I want a message to pop up to say "Please pick from the list of

I am on a Macintosh G5 running Mac OSX 10.4.5 and Excel 2004 for Mac
version 11.2.
Any attempt to create a macros (either by capturing keystrokes or
editing) will crash Excel.

I'm attempting to make whole lot of different graphs look good, and
similar for a paper I'm writing, where I want them to be in grayscale.
The present example is that I'm making column graphs of four or five
different items in each graph, and I'd like each graph to have similar

Just a quick question.  I have my default font set at Verdana 12pt (in
Preferences-General), and new workbooks open with those settings ok.
However, when I then add a new worksheet to the workbook, the font in the
new sheet is 10pt (with the concomitant row height, which I find too ...

I have this pesky little problem - I sit in a mixed office environment
with both PC's and MAC's. We exchange Office documents all the time.
If a collegue of mine, sitting on a PC, makes a neat Excel document
with a logo at the top, all fitted to be nicely printed aso., when I

In another life I was a PC Excel user. Now I use a MAC.
When you wanted to type a leteral in a cell, I beleive it was something
like this,
="bulb flats (r)".

A web query to update stock prices,
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/external/excel/quotes.asp?SYMBOL=["QUOTE","Enter
stock, fund or other MSN MoneyCentral Investor symbols separated by
commas."]

I have a column with a formula in it. there are several rows that have
no data. The formula displays a result of #DIV/0! on all the rows with
blank cells.
How do I get Excel to display these cells as blank? Also, where would I

Hello group,
I have received an Excel file from another person. There is a grey
border that appears around a group of cells which I can't figure out
how to remove. It is a double line with grey fill which appears if I

I have *just* found out that the job interview I have tomorrow will include
an Excel 'test'.  The job involves financial data analysis.  I'm reasonably
confident of my excel skills but because I'm looking to return to paid
employment after a break I'm a little concerned I may be ...