Coloured wheel of death with excel

[Vicky_Whitlock]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I get a coloured wheel of death every time i use excel from office 2008, almost every time I type into a cell, for about 3 - 6 seconds. I've looked on here and there seems to be a lot of discussion about hp drivers, but I don't have an hp printer. I'm working in normal view. Can anyone help?

 

[CyberTaz]

First, be certain that both Office (12.2.3) & OS X (10.6.2) are fully
updated. Run Disk Utility - Repair Disk Permissions, then see if things
improve after a restart of your Mac.

If things are still problematic it may be font related. Launch the Font Book
utility & run its Resolve Duplicates & Validate Fonts routines.

 

[Mungo]

where is the font book utility?

 

[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Applications Directory > then scroll down and locate Utilities open and
font Book is there.

 

[CyberTaz]

Actually, Font Book 'should' be in the Applications folder, itself.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Vicky_Whitlock]

OK - these seems to have worked - thanks so much for your help!!! )

 

[XinXin]

Vicky, can you please share which step helped solve your colored wheel? The update or the font book? This can help us improve the product and provide help to other customers if they run into the same issue. Thanks!

Thanks,
XinXin Liu
Macintosh Business Unit, Microsoft

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Vicky_Whitlock]

Hi - right, I seem to have a major problem now. Having deleted duplicate fonts in Utilities, I have now lost Arial as a font, and everything is defaulting to Times New Roman, from my own website in Safari thru to the font used in my emails. Now I need to restore fonts again!

It was the font book that stopped the coloured wheel though..and I now have errors on disc utility that it says it can't repair....

 

[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

What version of Mac OS?

And do you remember what the error messages are?

Run it again and do a snapshot of the errors come up? and post here.

Also try running Disk Utility from the Install disk.

If your not running OSX.5.8, OSX.6.2 download and install AppleJack.
I must be run from Single User Mode (UNIX Shell).