Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / December 2006

A file I've been working on for some time (which will be hard to re-create
without lots of hours!) suddenly won't open.
I've tried double clicking the file and opening from within Excel, but each
time, I get the "Microsoft Excel has encountered a problem and needs to

Although I have never changed my preferences, spreadsheets I recently
created have been showing up as "read-only" when I open them to add or
delete information. I keep going back into the "get info" and
correcting the ownership details but they seem to go back to the <read

We are having a problem where users will try to get into an excel file
and they will get the message that a certain user has that file open.
The problem is, that computer happens to my desk right now and it's not
on! I don't even think it has Excel installed on it anymore to be

I am probably doing something stupid, but, when I try to save a
Worksheet to CSV, I get messages saying that i can only save one page,
then one which says some features won't be saved... I go through those,
and a new Worksheet icon appears on the desktop with the .csv suffix.

I have a series of macros which cycle through identically structured
workbooks, collecting and reporting information from each. The macros
work(ed) fine in xl2001 and xl.x, but not in 2004. At first I found
that findfile had been dropped but replaced it using Dir. This works in

I'm having a hard time getting Excel to save field delimiter quote marks.
The commas are there but no quote marks.
Help!
Steve B

So, I am using my grilfriend's Mac iBook G4 while my PC gets repaired.
I was entering data into Excel for my Masters and accidently entered
new data into a couple of boxes with data already in them, wiping out
those numbers.  I wasn't sure which ones I had changed, making all my

My problem is that why I can not find solver table in excel 2004(Mac)
while I am planning to use it to do sensitivity analysis.(for linear
programming)
Thank you and appreciate for your help.

I have an Excel file created in Excel 2003 for windows that I never
expected to use on a Mac.  Now, however, my wife has gotten a mac, and
she needs to use the file as well.  When I first tried to open it, it
took forever because of the number of embedded buttons that were in it.

I need to import an Excel:mac table into a 2D drafting program. When I
import the file as a .txt, it comes in as one big block of text. I
would like it to appear the same way it does in Excel, each cell is a
separate "block." For example, I have a column for descriptions. When I

http://www.fmt.vein.hu/ai_phd/regression/
The link above is an excel add-in for linear algebra, statistics and
matirx operations. EXTREMELY useful. works fine in windows, blows up in
mac (office 2004). anyone have ideas on how to make it compatible?

I save a model in excel - simple sums and totals financial model -
several times during the day and it crashed.  now the latest version is
the one I save YESTERDAY!!!!!  ARGH!!!!  What happened???  how do I fix
this and recover my file!?!?!?!

Hi all - I use MS Excel for Mac 2004 - I mistakenly saved over an excel file
and am still hoping (desperately) to locate a backup. I have Excel set to
save an autorecovery file every ten minutes...how can I locate the
autorecovery file?? Is there any way?? Is there another option ...

A client has sent me an Excel file created in a recent version of MS
Excel.
He protected all but two columns in the sheet.
I can open the sheet in Windows Excel 2003 (?) and edit the unprotected

I am having a problem with copying/pasting in Excel 2003. It takes a
long time to copy and paste from one spreadsheet to another.
Info:
We have a worksheet with 6 sheets in them. The filesize is 26 MB. It