Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / April 2008

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

I have 2 spreadsheets, 1 about 14MB, the other about 29 MB.  In each
is a chart which plots daily data from 1972 through 2005 for 3
different data sets.  The chart worksheet takes about 45 seconds to
load.

I hadn't been on this forum for a while, so I'm delighted to see that people
from Microsoft, one being Mr. Todd Aton, are reading it regularly. Maybe
some messages can be heard better?
I make graphs with numerous data sets, one per year. I'd like to be able to

just figured out how to create a superscript/subscript in mac 2008 word/excel.
however, when i try to apply this to a chart axis label in excel, it won't allow me. i also tried copying the label from a word document, then pasting it in the formatting palette for the chart options, ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
My complex spreadsheet is refusing to recalculate. When I open it I'm told there's a circular reference but I have no idea where it is. The Circular Reference toolbar appears to be useful only when I've ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I'm having a strange symptom with Excel 2008 that I waited to report until I applied the update today.

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
I'm an Excel idiot. I downloaded data that broke into multiple rows, making the data unusable. For example, e-mail addresses broke into 2 or 3 rows, meaning I'd have to somehow manually fix each one (and I'm not even sure how ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I start with a ~100K record accounting transactions file with about 15 columns of text and numeric data running across it. I add a moderately complex nested 'IF' statement to each record in column Z as a ...

When I open a certain file then close it I am asked if I want to save or
discard changes.  Why?

What would cause Excel X to ask me if I want to save a file after I open it, do
nothing and then close it?

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I was being lead through an excel tutorial in college yesterday on PivotTables. Everything was going fine, I was following very closely to the instructors PC-based excel and my PivotTables matched hers. Than ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
How can I cut a table from Excel, paste into Mac Mail 3.2 and include the original format? In particular, borders are lost.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
How can you display the calculation in an individual cell, as you can in the regular version of excel on Windows? I recall it's usually located below the toolbar icons and above the actual spreadsheet.

I have an Office 2004 template that our employees use to compare data
between files... It uses conditional formatting to highlight changes from
one a column in one worksheet to a column in another. I can thank the users
on this forum for getting that to work.

Excel, Word, PowerPoint are unusable ever since the new update came
out.  They each crash several times a day.  Most times, it's the
spinning beach ball so I have to Force Quit the program.
Please tell me a fix is in the works!