Formula Bar in Excel 2008

[CyberTaz]

What you're experiencing is one of the differences between the Windows & Mac
operating system interfaces - the window implementation is not the same. The
Standard & Formatting toolbars are the only ones that dock inside the
document (what you're calling the Excel program) window. That's why t
doesn't go away when no files are open.

Drag the Formula bar up & dock it at the bottom edge of the Menu bar or
leave it floating re the only options. But it *is* part of Excel or it
wouldn't be there in the first place If you notice, the name "Excel" is
in the Menu Bar.

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

 

[JE McGimpsey]

*in addition to my post above*

here is a comparison:

Mac Office 2008: http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8126/picture1wh5.png

PC Office 2007:
http://www.geekpedia.com/gallery/fullsize/Microsoft Excel 2007.jpg

you can see in the Mac Office 2008 that the "formula bar" is floating.. and
that in PC Office 2007 the "formula bar" is docked above the "A,B,C,D" column
headings and shows "L30" as the selected cell..

i hope its more clear now...

is there a way to "dock" the "formula bar" in Mac Office 2008 to look like
the 2007 version so it stretches across the whole Excel screen?

The first link times out for me, but I'm not sure it's necessary.

There is no way to dock the Formula bar within the Excel document window.

Note that in XL07, the formula bar isn't docked in a document window
either: it's docked in the XL *application* window (which then contains
one or more document windows).

In MacOS X, document-based applications have individual document
windows, but the entire screen acts as the application window.