Excel in Panther

[Sandy]

I just installed Panther. After I save Excel to the desktop (or anywhere else) it
won't open in Excel. It only opens with MacLinkPlus deluxe v. 13 . I went to
the Apple site, yeah big deal they of no help and Microsoft, even worse.
Does anybody have any information on Panther and Excel?

 

[Jim]

Sandy, similar problem - X (10.3 - (forget wich kind of cat that is), Email
attachment xls file from a PC with Office 2000 - file saye it is 2001, and now
wants to open in something called "Project Gallery" - suspect another "Gates
dos" decendent designed to help in ways that we can not understand. Excell
is not a high lighted option in my select translate file screen - I may have
clicked on the Project Gallery option by mistake and now it is stuck.
Anyone have an idea of how to unselect this thing.

I'm going to try a X version of Excell and see if it will help

Jim

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Hi Sandy,

I just installed Panther. After I save Excel to the desktop (or anywhere
else) it won't open in Excel. It only opens with MacLinkPlus deluxe v. 13
. I went to the Apple site, yeah big deal they of no help and Microsoft,
even worse. Does anybody have any information on Panther and Excel?

No such problem on my Mac. I suspect the .xls files are not properly
registered in the system cache on your Mac. Thee is a easy workaround.
Select one of these files in the Finder and press command-i. Select that
you want to open the file with Ecel and apply to all. It should fix the
issue.


Now if the file lacks the .xls extension, that might be another problem.
You'll need to add it to the files. When they are sent raw over the net
(not-compacted) the Excel files really need the extension for the Finder
to find out what application should open it...



Corentin

 

[Guest]

Sandy - got my files to open -
Moved the files from the desktop, where they were placed by the download
manager, to a folder and then into an earlier folder - then went to Excell
and then opened the .xls files from there. Could not oen by clicking on the
file and Excell was not an option to openoriginal the email attachment.
They open as "values" only - no formulas for the cells - still checking from
original source to see if that is true.
may have to buy a X version of Excell - send more money to Gates is a last
resort?
JIm

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Sandy - got my files to open -
Moved the files from the desktop, where they were placed by the download
manager, to a folder and then into an earlier folder - then went to Excell
and then opened the .xls files from there. Could not oen by clicking on the
file and Excell was not an option to openoriginal the email attachment.

Try using the OSX assign application method.

Select an XL file. Choose File/Get Info. In the Open With pane of the
Get Info dialog, select "Other..." from the Open with dropdown.
Navigate to XL01 in the "Choose Other Application" dialog. If it's not
selectable, change the Enable dropdown to All Applications. Select XL01,
and click OK.

In the Get Info dialog, click the Change All button.

They open as "values" only - no formulas for the cells - still checking from
original source to see if that is true.

It has to be your original source. There's no function/mode within any
version of MacXL to change formulas to values on open. (You can
certainly do it manually, of course).

may have to buy a X version of Excell - send more money to Gates is a last
resort?

XLv.X won't solve the problem you've described - you've got to change
how the OS hands off the files, not anything with the application.

However, if you don't want to continue using Classic, and if you'd like
a few additional features,XLv.X is a good product. You may want to order
Office/XL 2004 instead, which will ship by the third week in May (though
if you buy v.X now, you get 2004 for a shipping and handling fee).

As far as sending your money to Gates - the vast majority of any Mac
product you buy from MS goes to the (mostly) young, hard-working,
dedicated hard-core Mac fanatics at MS's Mac Business Unit (MacBU). I
just spent three days in Redmond meeting with them, and, while nearly
every other aspect of MS continues to turn me off, I'm still a big fan
of those 170 people.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Sandy, similar problem - X (10.3 - (forget wich kind of cat that is),

10.2 - Jaguar
10.3 - Panther
10.4 - Tiger (not released yet)

Email attachment xls file from a PC with Office 2000 - file saye it
is 2001, and now wants to open in something called "Project Gallery"
- suspect another "Gates dos" decendent designed to help in ways that
we can not understand.

The Project Gallery is a Mac-only feature developed by MacBU for Office
2001 to be an organizing help, allowing you to choose any kind of Office
document from a single location. WinXL does not have anything like
Project Gallery (yet). By itself, the biggest advantage to Project
Gallery, IMO, is the ability to launch templates so that new documents
based on that template are created, rather than opening the template
itself (much as XL98's New dialog does).

Excell is not a high lighted option in my select translate file screen - I may have clicked on the Project
Gallery option by mistake and now it is stuck. Anyone have an idea of
how to unselect this thing.

If you don't want to see the PG when an Office app opens, click the "Do
not show on startup" checkbox on the PG dialog.

I'm going to try a X version of Excell and see if it will help

Doesn't sound like v.X will help you - the problem is your OS
assignment. See my other post in this thread for how to change the
application that opens your files.