Excel 2008 Freezes

[NickKenyeres]

I found that Excel 2008 freezes whenever I double-click on an Excel
file to open it. I have a MacBook Pro with 4Gb of RAM installed. I
found that this does not happen if I open a file through the File menu
in Excel.

 

[joel.lovell]

I found that Excel 2008 freezes whenever I double-click on an Excel
file to open it.  I have a MacBook Pro with 4Gb of RAM installed.  I
found that this does not happen if I open a file through the File menu
in Excel.

I find that my macbook pro freezes SOLID, when I try and copy and
paste from certain Excel sheets. Then of course, I have to power off,
you can't force quit for the life of you so Asta La Vista to any other
data you have unsaved in other apps. Worse, when I reboot and then try
and restart excel, it tries to recover the 'bad' spreadsheets and
locks all over again. I called Microsoft and they had a rediculous
solution - telling me I had to copy the contents of each spreadsheet
into a new work sheet. Of course, all of these spreadsheets (I have
several hundred) were created in Windows based various Excel versions
and even earlier Mac based Excel versions. No problems with those
spreadsheets in my windows systems.

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Julius]

I find that my macbook pro freezes SOLID, when I try and copy and
paste from certain Excel sheets. Then of course, I have to power off,
you can't force quit for the life of you so Asta La Vista to any other
data you have unsaved in other apps. Worse, when I reboot and then try
and restart excel, it tries to recover the 'bad' spreadsheets and
locks all over again. I called Microsoft and they had a rediculous
solution - telling me I had to copy the contents of each spreadsheet
into a new work sheet. Of course, all of these spreadsheets (I have
several hundred) were created in Windows based various Excel versions
and even earlier Mac based Excel versions. No problems with those
spreadsheets in my windows systems.

(e-mail address removed)

This JUST happened to me a few hours ago. I was trying to move the
formula bar below the menu items because it seemed very unorthodox to
have the formula bar ABOVE the menu bar and it locked up the entire
system. Plus, this happened even after I ran the 12.0.1 update.

I'm also running a Santa Rosa MBP with 4GB RAM. I can't believe that
it actually locked up the entire system! MacOS X should be preventing
this from happening. But iTunes kept playing in the background, but I
couldn't do anything and just had to cold boot the machine. Too bad
that Crash Reporter didn't seem to catch the problem so that it could
be reported.

 

[Martin]

This JUST happened to me a few hours ago. I was trying to move the
formula bar below the menu items because it seemed very unorthodox to
have the formula bar ABOVE the menu bar and it locked up the entire
system. Plus, this happened even after I ran the 12.0.1 update.

I'm also running a Santa Rosa MBP with 4GB RAM. I can't believe that
it actually locked up the entire system! MacOS X should be preventing
this from happening. But iTunes kept playing in the background, but I
couldn't do anything and just had to cold boot the machine. Too bad
that Crash Reporter didn't seem to catch the problem so that it could
be reported.

Same thing just happened to me, Penryn MBP and EXACTLY the same symptoms and
results. Nice to know I'm not the only one and there's no problem with the
machine. It's the first time I've had to force restart in OS X outside of
acknowledged kernel panics, and that's talking since 10.1.2. Nice going.

 

[Pat McMillan]

Please search this newsgroup for other similar reports. This is an Apple OS
driver bug that affects machines with Nvidia graphics cards.

Thanks,

Pat

 

[Martin]

Please search this newsgroup for other similar reports. This is an Apple OS
driver bug that affects machines with Nvidia graphics cards.

Thanks,

Pat




--
Pat McMillan
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft Corp.
This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Indeed, thanks for the follow-up. After posting here I went back to
searching (after having it happen again ) - now eagerly awaiting the
fix(es) from Apple and maybe combined with MS .

Cheers.

 

[Pat McMillan]

Thanks. Just to be clear, the fix will definitely be coming from Apple (not
MS) because it is their issue. I'll make sure to post to this group when
their fix is released.

Thanks,

Pat

 

[alatta]

Thanks. Just to be clear, the fix will definitely be coming from Apple (not
MS) because it is their issue. I'll make sure to post to this group when
their fix is released.

Thanks,

Pat




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

I too am having system crashes when resizing some spreadsheets in Excel 2008
(for mac) and the only recovery option is re-booting the system. System
details:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz
OS: OS X version 10.5.2
Are you sure this is an Apple driver issue?
Any further developments on correcting this behavior?
Thank you in advance.

 

[Pat McMillan]

Regarding this question:

"Are you sure this is an Apple driver issue?"

Does this thread convince you:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1460752&tstart=0

Thanks,

Pat

 

[CyberTaz]

<snip>

the only recovery option is re-booting the system

<snip>

When something like this happens have you tried Command+Tabbing to a
different application (if there's one running) or to Finder, then using the
Apple Menu> Force Quit? Or Command+Option+esc?

One of the major advantages of OS X is that one app misbehaving "shouldn't"
necessitate a restart of the system, and through Beta Testing as well as a
number of other "unorthodox" & experimental operations I've not found it to
fail. The only exception being when I had some sort of catastrophic
directory structure damage early on in 10.4 that I still can't explain - so
severe that neither Disk Utility, TechToolPro nor Disk Warrior were able to
resolve it - even Finder was locked up tight. In that instance I wound up
having to reformat the HD & completely reinstall everything.

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