Excel (Office 2004) behaving oddly on MacBook

[Jay]

I've recently upgraded my G4 iBook to a MacBook and one of the only
noticeable quirks has been two things to do with Excel.

When I try & open an .xls file that is on the desktop I get the following
error:

The operation could not be completed
An unexpected error occurred (error code - 10660)

Also, when I try open the same documents using the ctrl-click contextual
menu's 'Open with' and then choosing Excel, I get a prompt advising that
"You cannot open Microsoft Excel because it is in the Trash" which I can
certainly confirm is *not* the case

These problems only occur with excel files on the desktop so isn't much of a
problem, but I wondered if anyone else had experienced anything similar. Is
this just a Rosetta thing?

Any help appreciated.

-Jay-


Oh, and with just 512MB Ram I'm certainly taking a noticeable performance
hit in Excel because of the Rosetta translation (mmm, 'universal binary
macffice', methinks that'd be nice Msoft)

 

[Jay]

I've recently upgraded my G4 iBook to a MacBook and one of the only
noticeable quirks has been two things to do with Excel.

When I try & open an .xls file that is on the desktop I get the following
error:

The operation could not be completed
An unexpected error occurred (error code - 10660)

Also, when I try open the same documents using the ctrl-click contextual
menu's 'Open with' and then choosing Excel, I get a prompt advising that
"You cannot open Microsoft Excel because it is in the Trash" which I can
certainly confirm is *not* the case

These problems only occur with excel files on the desktop so isn't much of a
problem, but I wondered if anyone else had experienced anything similar. Is
this just a Rosetta thing?

Any help appreciated.

-Jay-


Oh, and with just 512MB Ram I'm certainly taking a noticeable performance
hit in Excel because of the Rosetta translation (mmm, 'universal binary
macffice', methinks that'd be nice Msoft)

DOH! It seems both problems were because the 2004 Office test drive that I
deleted after installing the full macffice, was still in the trash.

Trash emptied - problem solved.

Thought I'd post in case anyone has similar thing.

-Jay-