Microsoft PC Excel to Mac

[Dirkster]

I am working on a customer catalog that was done in Microsoft Excel on
the PC. We use Macs only, and when I open up the file, the page breaks
are wrong, and the columns are not the same size. At least that is how
it looks compared to the customer supplied lasers. We are using Excel
2004, and I believe the customer is using Excel XP. Any idea what is
going on, and how I can fix it?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I am working on a customer catalog that was done in Microsoft Excel on
the PC. We use Macs only, and when I open up the file, the page breaks
are wrong, and the columns are not the same size. At least that is how
it looks compared to the customer supplied lasers. We are using Excel
2004, and I believe the customer is using Excel XP. Any idea what is
going on, and how I can fix it?

The most likely explanation is that your fonts and printer drivers are
different than the Windows versions (that happens among WinXL users,
too). Make sure your standard font (Preferences/General) is the one
they're using, or at least one common to both platforms, such as MS's
Times New Roman. If they're using a font that's not available on your
system, XL will attempt to substitute a "close" one, with mixed results.

Some differences will probably not be able to be reconciled - XL isn't a
page layout application on either platform.