Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / September 2006

I am having some issues with form controls in Excel 2004 for Mac. I
opened a document made in Excel 2003 for windows that contains drop
down menus. When I try to use the drop down menus, clicking on the drop
down arrow chooses a cell behind the drop down. How do I go about

Who may support me?
I use excel 2004 and suddenly (I guess after update) I can not open some
excel files.
If I transfer the files to a PC it will open with no problem.

It is hard for me to see which current cell is selected in excel.  The
color is too faint.  How do I change it and make it darker?  Thanks!

Have recently come across a very strange and exceedingly annoying excel
behaviour.  I spent half a day putting together a complicated
analytical template.  When I finishned I copied the relevant sheet into
a new (single sheet) workbook to send to a colleague.  However, when I

im writting a macro in excel which requires that i import data from a txt
file. ok. the txt file changes on each ocaasion. how do i from excel tell the
macro which file to open and from which location.
pls help thnx.

I get a runtime error on the ActiveWorkbook.saveas line.
I want to save the file as a Mac text file  (19)
I would like it to have the .txt extension.  
I would like to have the date and time appended so that it doesn't write

I want to make several line graphs with 100s of lines, but Excel (as
far as I can tell) puts all lines as 2 pixel default thickness. Then,
it makes me change line or color one (slow!) line at a time.
How can I tell Excel that the default should be the thinnest line is

I wanted to draw a line chart.
No big deals.
But:
The line always shows a light grey shadow below

I have a form with 3 option buttons with different procedures in each.  If
the user picks option 1 then I want it to do 2 procedures and give the user a
message box.  Something is wrong with the message box.  I just want it to
print a message with the report date from two ...

I am trying to compile code that I have had working for over 10 years in
excel for windows.  It is in Visual Basic and is really annoying that it
wont work in Mac.
Function someFunction() as string()

I spent about an hour tonight trying to write a small applescript that
will take each non-empty cell in an excel 2004 workbook, and change its
font size to it's current font size + 3. To get a list of cells, i
tried this:

My form works.  If i pick an option it calls the procedure.  There are
several problems.   One is after I choose cancel it closes the form but excel
doesn't come back.  I have to force quit Excel.  everything in the menu is
grayed out.  I think the form is still running.  How do ...

I have networked from my Mac to my PC with a 75 ft cat5 cable.  The
Internet reception on the PC is very strong and fast,100Mbps. I can't,
however,figure out how to exchange Excel files, and other files,
between the two computers. I have Word Offfic on both computers and

I have a macro with the following included:
   iDataRows = Application.CountA(Range("A:A"))
   ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = _
"=SUMPRODUCT(--(LEFT(R2C1:R170C1,2)=""AP""),--(R2C7:R170C7=""Reactive""),