1. Excel 2008 won't open older files with Russian encoding correctly
Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I get Excel 97-2004 files from accountants with Russian fonts in them. Excel 2008 will not show those fonts correctly. Office 2007 under Windows opens those files correctly no problem. The only way around it is opening the file under Windows, saving it as XLSX and then working with it on my Mac, which is a pain.
2. Pagemaker won't open PC created document
3. Excel 5.0a won't open after trying to open an Excel file from a PC.
Hi Folks! I need help correcting a software problem. My Duo 2300c has Excel 5.0a and it was working fine. But I goofed it up by trying to execute an Excel file copied from an Compaq PC running Windows 98. First, the original spreadsheet was in Excel 97 format (or newer) on the PC. On the PC I opened the file and re-saved it as an Excel 5.0 file. (Excel 5.0 is an older version than Excel 97) I checked and it opens fine on a different PC that has Excel 5.0c on it. I then took the PC floppy disk with the Excel 5.0 spreadsheet on it, and copied the file to my Duo 2300c hard disk. (PC exchange and MacLink Plus extensions were on and the file icon does not say "PC". When I tried to open the file, I got an error message: The application "Microsoft Excel" could not be opened because "MicrosoftVisualBasicAppsLib" could not be found. Now I get that error message whenever I try to open Excel 5.0 on the Duo. Excel 5.0 files that used to open fine don't work anymore. I searched the hard disk for the missing file, but could not find it. I rebooted the Duo, and later I rebuilt the desktop with no improvement. I borrowed another Mac that has Excel 5.0 on it, and copied Excel preferences, settings, toolbars, Chart Autoformats, and the actual Excel program file to my 2300c using Appletalk. I moved the original preferences, etc. into the trash can. I still get the same error when trying to open Excel. I also tried trashing a file called VBA preferences with no luck. I found in Extensions/Type Libraries a file called "en vba olb (Power Mac)". I made a copy of "en vba olb (Power Mac)", renamed it to "MicrosoftVisualBasicAppsLib" to see if that was the file Excel was looking for, but it was not so I trashed the renamed file. Can anyone offer any more suggestions on how to correct this problem? The 2300c has 36 meg RAM and 56 meg virtual memory set up. Or if someone has a copy of the installation floppies or CD for Microsoft Office or Office 98 for Macintosh they could sell or loan me, I could try a re-install of Microsoft Office. Thanks for any suggestions, Art in Silicon Valley
4. Upddated to 10.3.9 and now Entourage won't open any emails with graphics
5. Problem with rotated text in embedded PC metafile graphics, opened with Mac
Using Arial font on the PC, rotated text, such as used to label Y axes in embedded plots, is not positioned correctly when opened on a Mac. The label usually overlaps other text or runs off the edge of the graphic, rendering it unusable. The problem specifically occurs when the embedded graphic uses a metafile format, such as when I past plots from packages such as Origin Pro 7.5 or Igor (PCv5.0) I know there are workarounds, such as converting to a bitmap format on the PC beforehand, but this is very inconvenient when I have dozens of plots which exist as embedded objects in the PC file. The PC version is Powerpoint 2003, SP2, and the Mac version is Powerpoint 2004, unknown updates. My suspicion is this is an issue with the metafile -> PICT conversion being done on the Mac. Is there an updated version of this converter that does a better job?