Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / January 2008

The add-in functions (xirr, xnpv, etc.) no longer seem to be add-ins.  They seem to be finally included with regular functions (after, what, ten years), however they I can't seem to get them to work properly. When I open a spreadsheet from Excel 2004 I have a NUM error.  I can re-enter

This is such bull$%@$. I am so angry right now. Nothing on the add-in about this.  I can't believe Microsoft would screw me like this. Tell me I didn't just waste $150 bucks on another piece of trash Microsoft product..

I download data from online databases and it arrives as am xml file.
Previous versions of Excel for Macintosh will not open these files in
a spreadsheet format.  Has that changed in Excel 2008?

I've been using Excel for decades and have installed Office 2008 using OSX 10.4.11 on a MacBook Pro. I have been using Excel 2008 for 2 days and opened a sheet that I'd been working on in Excel 2008 and found that the Standard toolbar was missing (the one with New, file, save icons

Is it possible to create formulas or macros that include the worksheet's name?
I am creating a workbook to track performance information that happens 8 times a week.  I have a master file with 8 sheets, one for each perfromance.  I manually rename each sheet to reflect the date

I am trying to work in one of the provided templates in Excel 2008, specifically the shopping list.  I am trying to make the price of each item I input link you to the online vendor page, but whenever I create the hyperlink, the entire row becomes a hyperlink, instead of just the

In Excel X I have used the option to reference a cell in a different folder.
When I open the file it asks if I want open automatic links, if you say yes
it knows where they are and you do what you want to do.
In Excel 2004, however, if you say yes you have to select the files. How ...

In Excel X and 2004 the Geneva Font is not being displayed correctly under
10.5, but was displayed correctly in 10.4. Any way to get this fixed? Does
Apple know about this problem? Thanks.

When I installed Office 2008 for Mac there were no problems. My old Excel
2004 files located in my home folder were preserved.
However, the file located in my Office 2004 Excel "Startup" folder was
deleted. How can I get this file back? Thanks.

Hello, can I set up my Entourage calendar to tie in with dates set up
in an Excel spreadsheet? I have applied a formula to tally my bills
and would like to have this represented in my Entourage calendar so I
can see incomings/outgoings. Thanks.

Problems importing to Entourage with commas in the data.  I would like to convert specific commas that are separators and make them tabs (as if you were touching the tab button). Is there a way to do this is FIND and REPLACE?  When I'm in the replace window and hit the tab button

I have a very large range whereas I have 0's, 1's and 2's. The values
represent dates for classes in columns. (Example: Column D represents an
instructor and at some location down the column there is a 1 for start date
and a 2 for an end date. All other cells are 0's. see below)

Excel X for Office
0SX 10.4.11
733/1gb/
I customized a tool bar last night and when I started Excel this

I'm new into Mac but when I purchased Microsoft Excel Mac I understood
that if I attach a file from Mac to an email sent to a MS computer,
the MS computer would be able to read it "seamlessly".  I've just
heard that this isn't happening and attachments can't be opened. Can I

I am working on a bespoke spreadsheet created for my work which
captures data and outputs to a flash interface. I am getting a Debug
come up every time i input the data and try to submit it to the flash
interface. In Excel for PC's you have an option to almost disable the