Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / March 2008

For years I've been able to copy a table from Excel into PowerPoint
with no problems. Suddenly the table is cropped when I paste it into
PowerPoint. This problem seems to have started with I upgraded to
Leopard. Has anyone experienced this problem? Is there a work-around?

I am trying to open an Excel file that a friend emailed me with an animated puzzle of some sort. The file name is Watershare.xls and its size is 106KB.
It works on the Windows version, but not on the Mac. I have an iMac with the latest Leopard OS.
The file never opens. Instead I ...

Does anybody know what the maximum number of external data ranges can be
imported into an Excel file?
At present the maximum I can import into a file is 64.  Is this the maximum?
Is the issue with my file?  Is the issue with my system setup?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Hi. I'm working on a 2 column, 18 row spreadsheet, all text. There is one cell in the document that does not show up on preview and does not print. The s/s is 1.5 pages long. However, when I tell it to fit ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
I can all files in Excel but one. It just won't open. Plse Help!!!!

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
My escape key does not work! I can only reverse out of a cell by pressing Shift+ESC. Anyone else have this problem?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
I would like to change the row height of a 5 row footer within Excel - does anyone know how?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I am getting to grips with Excel 08 and using it on my macbook with an external monitor which is placed directly above the macbook. Try as I might I can't find a simple way of dragging the Excel page on to the ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
I have been working on a large database with some valuable information in it. Until now, I've been using lists, macros and graphs with no problems (as is expected). I recently added a Pivot Table, saved and quit, ...

When I open a new document in excel 2004 the document opens up to a default
of 4 x 4 inches at 100% size even though all settings are set at letter size
(both in preferences and print settings)  There seems to be no changing this.
When I open up an old documents they too are set ...

The PowerPoint application have some nice table styles as in Microsoft Excel
2007. Are these table styles also available in Mac Office Excel 2008? I
can't find them and I think this should be default in Excel.
Kind Regards,

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Excel seems to take a long time to "fully open" and become functional. I just loaded the latest update and it takes more than a minute and a lot of spinning ball interruptions before I can really get started.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
When i click on the icon of an existing Excel file on my desktop, Excel also attempts to open a pdf file that was previously deleted from the computer. Excel ends up trying to open the non-existent pdf file plus ...

Although I can rename each worksheet and can see that name if I go to
rename it a second time - once I click back into the main spreadsheet
the workbook names disappear. This was not the case up unitl today
when I copied a emailed excel workbook I had been sent.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
dear all,