I am in need of some help. This morning i updated office 2011 - word is working fine but excel is all out of sorts. These are the messages i am getting when i try to open a file.
The names of the files are showing up so i don't feel like excel was deleted or anything. Excel is showing up on the toolbar above but is giving me these messages. What to do??? Thanks to all in advance. Here is additional info Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0 Error Signature: Exception: EXCBADACCESS Date/Time: 2012-04-17 22:21:55 -0400 Application Name: Microsoft Excel Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.Excel Application Signature: XCEL Application Version: 14.2.0.120402 Crashed Module Name: libobjc.A.dylib Crashed Module Version: unknown Crashed Module Offset: 0x00005f87 Blame Module Name: MBURibbon Blame Module Version: 14.2.0.120402 Blame Module Offset: 0x000191cc Application LCID: 1033 Extra app info: Reg=en Loc=0x0409 Crashed thread: 0.
I have had 2011 since it came out. I have been operating it without problem until this morning. Admittedly, I haven't opened anything in a week or two, but now I am having the exact same problem. Excel, specifically, will not open. I get the error message as above. Unlike the OP, I have nothing on my desktop, so that isn't the problem. Also, the problem exists whether opeing a file directly, or double-clicking in the application itself.
Hi--I was experiencing slow turn around on EXCEL on my Mac, too. ( a problem from day 1 in Office 2008 ) and the copy data seems to take much longer ( getting the spinning beach ball of death often almost always - so Igo read e-mail while I wait ) also a problem from day 1 of Office 2008. Excel just 'goes somewhere' - the FORCE QUIT says. I have a MacBook and I'm running OS X (10.5.8) with Office X installed. Suddenly, my Office Excel and Word - Answered by a verified Mac Support Specialist. I am a Macbook user and I am using Mac Office 2008, but each time I open up a word document, I often get a message that tells me that Word 2008 needs to close. Today, when I tried to.
Same whether opening from Dock or Apps Folder. Can't figure it out.
In article, wrote: I don't like the floating formula bar in Excel 2008. You can anchor it just under the menu bar, just as in all previous versions. When you pop it into place, the formula area will extend across the entire screen (you can make it shorter with the drag bar). Is there a way to anchor it to the main window like in the older versions?
The formula bar was never anchored to any window in older versions. It either floated or was docked at the edges of the screen, just as in this version. Also is there a way to anchor some of the palette items as well? As in previous versions, you can't separate items in the Toolbox (except for color palettes, which you can still tear off). And as in previous versions, the Toolbox floats. I'm just not use to this new interface and I just want to work - not try to find everything or use the mouse to click something.
Nothing you've mentioned is much different than in XL04, or XLv.X, for that matter. The biggest difference in XL08 is that the Standard Toolbar is docked inside the workbook window. That takes some getting used to, but it's very similar to many, if not most, other Mac apps. [email protected] 20/1/2008, 11:33 น. This IS different from previous versions. No doubt about it.
Yes, it is floating, as in previous versions, but the Standard Toolbar is now attached (to the 'dock,' I suppose), so there is no way to get the formula bar close to the worksheet. The standard toolbar gets in the way, frankly. In addition, it is different from previous versions in that there is no way to have the standard toolbar NOT 'in the dock.' If I could make the standard toolbar and the formula bar either both in the dock or both floating, I'd be happy.
Incidentally, why IS it that only standard toolbar and formating toolbar can be in the dock? Any why is it mandatory that the standard toobar MUST be in the dock, if it's there at all. Doesn't make any sense, really. JE McGimpsey 20/1/2008, 13:25 น. In article, wrote: This IS different from previous versions.
No doubt about it. Yes, it is floating, as in previous versions, but the Standard Toolbar is now attached (to the 'dock,' I suppose), so there is no way to get the formula bar close to the worksheet. The standard toolbar gets in the way, frankly.
In addition, it is different from previous versions in that there is no way to have the standard toolbar NOT 'in the dock.' If I could make the standard toolbar and the formula bar either both in the dock or both floating, I'd be happy. Incidentally, why IS it that only standard toolbar and formating toolbar can be in the dock?
Any why is it mandatory that the standard toobar MUST be in the dock, if it's there at all. Doesn't make any sense, really. The standard toolbar in the unified toolbar-titlebar ('the dock') is a result of moving toward increased compliance with the Apple Human Interface Guidelines: I agree that it would have been nice if all the other toolbars were either docked or Aqua panels, but much of the toolbar functionality and therefore development effort has obviously moved to the Toolbox, which is panel-like. The formula bar has always been a different beast.
There's something really funky about the way the formula box control has been coded - it never acted right when put into a custom toolbar in previous versions. So I'd guess that's why it didn't make it into the dock. Jim Gordon MVP 20/1/2008, 14:54 น. Hi, May I assume that you are referring to Excel 2008 for Macintosh? I think your consternation is a result of Microsoft adopting a new attitude toward toolbars. In all previous versions of Office, toolbars were at the application level.
If you closed a document window, your toolbars remained. Not matter what document was opened, only things relating to the document appeared in the document window. This is the right way to do it IMHO. However, web browser makers (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc) never got around to implementing this behavior.
I don’t know if they were lazy, incompetent, never thought about it, or what the reason was, but the web browser makers usually fill each document window with browser controls instead of making separate toolbars. Because web browsers are so popular, Apple and now Microsoft have adopted the same “look and feel” and are wasting lots of screen space with application controls in each document window. The reason for the change in Office 2008 is to follow the crowd to be trendy, chique and look like web 2.0 applications. The same controls are duplicated over and over in each document. What a waste of screen space! But the look and feel is now consistent (consistently bad IMHO) in more and more applications.
Thankfully, for those of us who want a clean look with sensible behavior, the Mac version of Office 2008 lets you customize things. We can make the interface work the way it’s supposed to (or at least the way you and I think it should). Incidentally, Windows Office 2007 users are simply screwed in this regard, so thank Apple and MacBU for making and following the Apple user interface guidelines.
We still have menus and still have customizable toolbars. So let’s get started on undoing all this messy garbage they put into the document windows. First, go to View Customize Menus and Toolbars. A box will open on the screen. We’re going to make a new toolbar that will behave like the old, dockable, resizable toolbars did.
Click the New button and give the new toolbar a name; for example: My Standard. Then click the OK button. A new, very small toolbar will then appear on the screen. It will be a very small box and you will have to look for it, but it’s there. Now drag each command, one by one, from the Standard toolbar to your new toolbar. While you’re at it you can arrange the commands in any order on your new toolbar.
If there’s a command you never use you can drag it off into the air and let go (like when you get rid of a dock icon) and then it goes away (no fancy poof, though). If you click on the Commands button in the Customize box you can add any command you want to to your new toolbar. If you right-click or control-click on a command choose Properties.
Then you can change the icon for the command (you can paste new icon pictures in if you want) and whether or not to have a group dividing line to the left of the command button on your toolbar. Now we can get rid of the big gray space that’s left by clicking on Toolbars and Menus tab in the Customize box and uncheck the Standard checkbox. If you ever want to restore the controls that were removed from the standard toolbar you can click on the word Standard in the Customize box and click the Reset button. Doing so will not affect your new toolbar. Once you have your new standard toolbar set up, click the OK button in the Customize box and there it is! You can dock it at the top of the Excel window, resize it, have it floating or dock to the bottom or sides just like in all previous versions of Excel.Jim - Jim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info [email protected] 20/1/2008, 16:11 น. Perhaps it was something I should have figured out on my own, but it was a great help.
This also answered another question of mine: I like to have 'save as' as a button on the standard toolbar, but the standard 'save as' button does not have an icon. It also seems to me that commands - on the title bar only - could not be customized. At least, nothing I did seemed to allow it. On any of the toolbars, it's a simple right-click and choosing 'properties.' Doesn't look like any command (or separator) can be customized. Too bad, really. But since I won't be using the title bar for commands anymore (thanks again!), it doesn't really effect me.
[email protected] 29/1/2008, 12:02 น. I'll add my vote for a dockable formula bar. I understand Jim's point about screen space being wasted with toolbars in each window, but it's a case of different strokes for different folks. It depends on how big your screen is as to whether docking the toolbars is a bad thing or a good thing.
I'm on dual 30' monitors, and I can afford to waste a bit of screen space by docking my toolbars. What is driving me crazy is having the formula bar floating off in the corner of one screen while the spreadsheet is several feet away at the other side of the other screen.
A docking formula bar would be a big improvement IMHO. JE McGimpsey 30/1/2008, 10:27 น. There is also another floating bar that's undockable.
That's the little PDF Printer Menu inserted by Adobe acrobat. Thank goodness in Office 2008 it can be turned off. Every time I open Excel2004 or Word2004 I have to drag that little menu to the end of one of the docked menus. Even though I've opened W2004/E2004 a zillion times.
The first time I opened 2008 I looked for the preference for the dockable menu and lo and behold there was a choice turn the the #$@^& thing off. And its not needed now since you have a choice in Save As.
Menu to save directly to PDF. Which does the correct thing about saving to PDF. - Phillip M.
Jones, CET LIFE MEMBER: VPEA ETA-I, NESDA, ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112 , ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet - If it's 'fixed', don't 'break it'! Mailto: JE McGimpsey 31/1/2008, 5:41 น. In article, Phillip Jones wrote: There is also another floating bar that's undockable.
That's the little PDF Printer Menu inserted by Adobe acrobat. Thank goodness in Office 2008 it can be turned off. every time I open Excel2004 or Word2004 I have to drag that little menu to the end of one of the docked menus. Even though I've opened W2004/E2004 a zillion times.
Or you could have used the technique here to get rid of the toolbar altogether: Phillip Jones 31/1/2008, 11:12 น. So you are the one that originated that??:-) I've been using that for years because it never worked as it was supposed to until Acrobat 7 and 8.
Also a note in your info should if the items should ever become corrupt unless you remove the old files and trash them before updating them through Acrobat. They will just write on top of the corrupt file and not fix the problem.
At least with office 8 you can turn the bloody things off and not have to worry with them. - Phillip M.
Jones, CET LIFE MEMBER: VPEA ETA-I, NESDA, ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112 , ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet - If it's 'fixed', don't 'break it'! Mailto: Bob Greenblatt 14/2/2008, 5:15 น. On 2/14/08 6:55 AM, in article [email protected], 'Gary' wrote: I like the way the formula bar is incorporated into the iWork 'Numbers' window. It's really neat and not dissimilar to Excel Windows. I don't understand why this cannot be incorporated into Excel 08. It's really no different from having a URL bar in a browser.
Maybe you can't understand it, but you have no idea of the structure of Excel's internal code to support the UI. If this is a feature you would like, send feed back via the help menu and explain what you would like and why. Perhaps if enough people agree we'll see it in a future version. Bob Greenblatt MVP, Macintosh bobgreenblattATmsnDOTcom JE McGimpsey 14/2/2008, 10:30 น. In article, Gary wrote: I like the way the formula bar is incorporated into the iWork 'Numbers' window. It's really neat and not dissimilar to Excel Windows. I don't understand why this cannot be incorporated into Excel 08.
It's really no different from having a URL bar in a browser. I agree that would be nice. However there are several differences. One difference is that URL bars in browsers that I know about don't expand to display 32767 characters at once, nor do their editing capabilities include partial evaluation of formulae.
The formula bar with its edit box control, in both WinXL and MacXL, have 'always' behaved differently than any other toolbars. I suspect it's part of having 25-year-old legacy code. Of course, that doesn't mean that it can't be reworked to be dockable. Let MS know using Help/Send Feedback. TomH 24/3/2008, 10:05 น. You all seem to be experts in the shortcomings of Mac Excel and its toolbars. I recently moved from PC to Mac.
Am running Office 2008. Have struggled seriously getting used to the lack of Alt + keyboard commands in Excel, but I'm getting used to it. I have a powerbook 15' and an external Dell monitor.
About a week ago, the annoyingly floating formula bar opened up off the left side of the screen on my laptop. The controlling edge is off screen so I cannot grab it get it back onto the screen. I've tried just about everything to regain control. Also, for whatever reason, my toolbars will not dock to the top of the window. They float, but will not attach at all. What could be causing this shortcoming. Any suggestions.
Pat McMillan 24/3/2008, 23:11 น. For the Formula Bar problem, quit Excel and delete the com.microsoft.Excel.plist file. Unfortunately, this will reset all of your Excel preferences so any custom preferences will have to be set again. When you re-launch Excel the Formula Bar will be in the right place again.
We're aware of this problem and are looking into it now. I'm actually not sure about your toolbars not docking. Can you give me an example of a toolbar that doesn't dock, and exactly where you're trying to dock it? Do you mean directly beneath the main menu bar? Thanks, Pat On 3/24/08 10:05 AM, in article [email protected], 'TomH' wrote: - Pat McMillan Macintosh Business Unit Microsoft Corp. This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Beau21 30/3/2008, 21:15 น. I have a question and it's pretty much the same as the first guy's. I, too, recently converted to mac and got Mac Office 2008.
And when I go to Excel I noticed there is no 'formula bar' like I'm used to being right at the top of my chart on my old PC Excel. So I went to View - Formula Bar and then it came up as a floating formula bar that showed the highlighted cell and the formula or content of that cell. My problem though it that I can not figure out how to attach/dock the formula toolbar to the rest of Excel so it's not 'floating' anymore. I hope this makes sense. Here's a picture of my screen that i captured: you can see the formula bar but it's obviously not attached to the Excel program but is just floating there. How can I attach it to the excel program view like under the row that has 'Arial' '12' 'Bold' 'Italic' 'Underlined' etc.
Beau21 30/3/2008, 21:37 น. 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 On 3/31/08 12:15 AM, in article, 'beau21' JE McGimpsey 31/3/2008, 5:11 น. In article, beau21 wrote: 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. [email protected] 28/1/2015, 11:03 น.
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