2008 stripping ALL hyperlinks

[morwen]

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

Okay, why is Excel stripping all the hyperlinks out of ANY .xls spreadsheet I open? This renders the program completely useless to me as at work I use spreadsheets constantly that have hyperlinked data to web pages. I have to use Numbers now, because it WILL open these excel spreadsheets correctly. These sheets have no macros in them or anything just plain Jane hyperlinks.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

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

Okay, why is Excel stripping all the hyperlinks out of ANY .xls spreadsheet I
open? This renders the program completely useless to me as at work I use
spreadsheets constantly that have hyperlinked data to web pages. I have to
use Numbers now, because it WILL open these excel spreadsheets correctly.
These sheets have no macros in them or anything just plain Jane hyperlinks.

I don't see this with my clients' .xls sheets, and can't reproduce that
on my machines.

Does this happen with .xls sheets you create as well?

 

[morwen]

No, its only spreadsheets I open that this is happening to. And a friend with 2008 opened the same spreadsheet and the hyperlinks are all in there for him?!

 

[morwen]

Ah...I upgraded to 12.0.1, my friend did not. I have seen other reports of 12.0.1 stripping hyperlinks on macrumors and macfixit.

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

Ah...I upgraded to 12.0.1, my friend did not. I have seen other reports of
12.0.1 stripping hyperlinks on macrumors and macfixit.

Yep, it's a known bug with 12.0.1

 

[morwen]

Well things just keep getting suckier for me. So I followed mactopia's instructions to delete office and reinstall off my cd to get back to 12.0.0 so I could work, and when it reinstalled Entourage won't read my mail rules file, it thinks its corrupt even though it was working fine before I reinstalled. Now I'll have to spend the rest of the work day manually inputting all my mail rules, there's about 100 of them. :scream: Is there any way to fix this without having to do that?

 

[Pat McMillan]

I'm really sorry for the pain this is causing you. We are working on a fix
for this now. The only workaround I'm aware of is if you have access to a
version of Windows Excel 2007 to open the files there and save them out as
..xlsx format. After that, they should open fine in Mac Excel 12.0.1 with all
the links intact. The problem is restricted to .xls files.

Thanks,

Pat

 

[morwen]

Thanks, I guess I'll just have to keep using 2004 until this gets fixed.

 

[anode505]

I'm really sorry for the pain this is causing you. We are working on a fix

for this now. The only workaround I'm aware of is if you have access to a
version of Windows Excel 2007 to open the files there and save them out as
.xlsx format. After that, they should open fine in Mac Excel 12.0.1 with all
the links intact. The problem is restricted to .xls files.

Thanks,

Pat


On 19/03/2008 12:48, in article (e-mail address removed)9absDaxw,
:

> Well things just keep getting suckier for me. So I followed mactopia's
> instructions to delete office and reinstall off my cd to get back to 12.0.0 so
> I could work, and when it reinstalled Entourage won't read my mail rules file,
> it thinks its corrupt even though it was working fine before I reinstalled.
> Now I'll have to spend the rest of the work day manually inputting all my mail
> rules, there's about 100 of them. :scream: Is there any way to fix this
> without having to do that?

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Pat McMillan
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft Corp.
This posting is provided �AS IS� with no warranties, and confers no rights.

MS going to give a free version of windows and the Excel 97 to correct this problem? LOL.

So the idea is to spend more money on older software to get things to work?

Am I the only one that can see the emperor is buck-naked?