Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / December 2006

I recently upgraded my RAM to 640 MB, and my operating system to Tiger
10.4.8.  I also re-installed Microsoft Office X.  However, I've now
noticed that there's a time lag when I try the following...
1) Manually widen a column by clicking on the line and dragging it

Boy, excel issues never end.
I have cell with a live link for e mail.
Thanks fine, but why is the cell to the right getting a live link? I did not
put in e mail or web address in it, yet it has blue and the underline???

Since switching from a PowerMac G5 & PowerBook G4 with Office 2004 to
an iMac and a MacBook (German OSX all Software freshly installed) I
have problems with Excel files that won't open any more. Only files I
created after the switch show this behavior. Especially files with

I am trying to analyse date specific data from several worksheets.  I
am trying to track surgical refractive outcomes for 3 docs.  I have 1
worksheet for each with a series of data relating to specific dates.
For example, original surgery date = 1/1/2006; then there is a visit at

Unfortunately, I was one of those whose autoupdate uploaded the bad MS
office update on 12/12.  It caused many problems but mainly, if I
modified any older excel spreadsheets, it would crash excel if I tried
to open it after i saved it.  I totally deleted MS office and removed

I have created a new spreadsheet in Excel 2000 which involved some copying
and pasting from a previous spreadsheet. There are multiple worksheets in the
xls. Its fairly complex so don't want to recreate the whole thing again.
At one point the copy of a worksheet failed (crash with ...

I've been through this before, it's so Excel, so unintuitive to deal with,
here it is again.
I have a password, let say:
10732801143251886353

I installed the latest Office 2004 for Mac update 11.3.2 (the
legitimate update, not the early release).
Now Microsoft Excel won't run, here's what happens:
1. It goes to the splash screen right away (normal behavior).

Folks --
The Shell in VBA in Office X always returns PID 0 and doesn't execute
anything, no matter what I try. I want to run a perl script. Similar
code works on Windows XP. Anyone know what's wrong? I'm running OS

I have a macbook pro that I've been using since May.  I had been using
the Microsoft office apps on it, but sometime over the late summer,
something had changed with my configuration (service packs, updates, I
don't know) but I'm getting the following problem:

I will post this intentionally here and excel group because I don't know
where  it would apply.
Every year I have to make my mother a Calendar. I've had to come up with
my own design, and on formulas.

This is the most frustrating program ever...
Randomly when entering date in any (no particular) vell...the program
goes into a save mode by itself....so you must force quite and re-enter
the data...I have consulted with Microsoft about this...we then deleted

No other software brutalizes me like Excel.
I did a simple copy and paste and got these Alien, frigging nutcase yellow
bars in columns I'm not even using.
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I have this issue that I can't seem to get anyone to help with here -- on
this usually great newsgroup
thread:     ( Columns: I'm seeing yellow bars)
One guy has tried to help a bit, suggest I delete columns that have the

I have a file, and after copying and pasting to some columns, I'm seeing
these yellow bar on far right in columns I have not used yet.  Any ideas
appreciated.
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