Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / May 2009

Version: v.X
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Out of the blue, Excel crashes when I try to open it. The error report is below. Any advice about how to fix this?
Process: Microsoft Excel [148]

I am having a strange problem with Excel.  Whenever I select 'Spelling' from
the Tools menu I receive an error message saying "The word could not be
added to the custom spelling dictionary.  The word contains invalid
characters."

Processor: Intel
I am an excel newbee. I can insert a combo box in excel 2007 and populate it. I have a column "description" and a list of items in the combo list. I have 2 problems. 1. When I click the item only a number is entered in the cell. 2. I want to be able to insert the ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
I need to be able to paste video hyperlinks into an Excel spreadsheet--NOT the URL, but the title of the video itself that will automatically link to the site. Can anyone tell me how to proceed?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Since upgrading, I have found the 2008 mac version very very slow in all aspects of the application. Is there a known bug with this?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Does anyone know how to export addresses that are listed in Excel, but broken up in different cells by first name, last name, address, city, state, etc into a Word template provided by Avery for printing mailing labels? I'm ...

Excel 2003 has started to open worksheets with a dialog that it cannot read
the format, then opens them with garbage on one sheet, while the actual sheet
opens and can be used.  What could be causing this now?  Sometimes the
worksheets will open.  Most times the error occurs.  ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
I am trying to create a spreadsheet that will allow me to enter both start & finish times (either 12hr or 24hr clock format) and then calculate the total hrs worked. Usually, the start time is AM & the finish time is PM or ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Hopefully I'm just missing something; is there really no way in Excel 2008 to move or nudge selected objects (labels, text boxes, graphics, etc.) in small increments? This is such a standard feature of any ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
How do I stop the cell color from automatically changing color? Eg, if I change the fill color to green for one cell, when I type in the cell below (which has no fill color), when I hit enter, the cell color ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
There are a few documents I am working with that I need to continually update. I have set the page size as tabloid in the page setup dialog. EVERY time I open the document it has reverted back to a letter size ...

I have a VBA project in EXCEL which opens on the machine it was created on ,
is then closed, being saved in a shared documents file on that machine. If it
is opened again on the machine it was created on it is fine, if, however in
the meantime, it is opened on another machine and ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Whenever I attempt to copy a sheet within a workbook, Excel crashes. I really only use Excel 2008 at home for this one file that this is occurring in. Testing this in other test workbooks is not duplicatable.

I am trying to do a mass find and replace (ctrl+h) on a specified range to
change all.  When I hit replace all, not only is the specified range being
changed, but all of the matching cells in my spreadsheet.  What is going on?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel
What is the formula to count the number of cells that contain something; in this case, an 'x'?