Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / August 2007

I pulled together a large number of records, sorted as needed and cut/pasted
into a new page to get the records back in numerical order (no skips). I used
this list to send an important message to global clients.
Later, I noticed (by accident) that key names had been DELETED from ...

Is it my imagination or did the 11.3.7 update actually correct a
long-standing issue with the MRU?
I finally got around to updating & find that I can now launch Excel, change
nothing, Quit, & when I re-launch the MRU is still intact!

When looking at an Excel Worksheet, the columns are labeled across the
top alphabetically (A-Z and then AA, AB, AC, AD, etc.) and the rows
are labeled down the side numerically.
Can anyone tell me how to hide the letters and the numbers?

All of a sudden, I can't launch Excel, Word or PowerPoint because the
applications think that all my fonts are corrupted, which couldn't be
further from the truth. What's going on and is there a work around to
avoid any font optimization?

I have DELETED unused rows and columns, CONTROL/END goes to the end of
good data, and I have SAVED and CLOSED the worksheet, but the vertical
scrollbar is still acting like I have 65K rows.  There are no comments
in the first row (a problem according to some posts), and I had the

I have two workbooks open and I am comparing them.  Each is on its own
screen.  When I select the workbook on the main screen the workbook
window on the second screen shrinks in size to less then 1/4.  HOW DO
I STOP THIS BEHAVIOR?

Mac ibook g4, osx.3.9, 0ffice 2004, multiple browsers.
have need to import an html table into excel to finish a thesis
project. the data includes free text fields with imbeded commas, which
are screwing up  the import. copy/paste, the the on-line helps have

i use a MAC and excel and find the following formula not compatible.
Does anyone know a solution to this problem?
=MSNStockQuote.Functions.MSNStockQuote("ADM","Last Price","US")

A data provider enables me to download real estate data that includes dollar
amounts.
The search through Internet explorer shows a page of data which can then be
downloaded to Excel.  However the dollar items come into Excel as labels

How hard is it to access data on an excel spreadsheet that needs a
passowrd to view it's contents? I say this as my PowerBook has been
stolen and has some password protected excel data on it.
Thanks.

Hi you all!
I just wanted to start using Microsoft Excel for some of my activities
in college and bussiness so, I was wonder if someone can recommend me
some links with useful information for a beginner (or advanced) to

Is there any way to stop text from one cell flowing into blank cells
to the right of the cell?

What code will save a previously unsaved workbook using a file name
generated by data in the new workbook?  For example, if cell A1 in the new
workbook has the number 0036 in it, how would you save the new workbook as
0036 myFileName.xls

I am entering numbers in cells and Excel is automatically turning them
into some type of formula, which I don't want it to do, but I can't
stop it. Help!

I have a problem that has appeared in a large spreadsheet where the Lookup
function returns some values correct and not others.  To test what was
happening I did a small spreadsheet to simply match two sets of numbers.  it
works for about half the column down to G17 and then goes ...