Excel 2004 Crashing
Hi all,
I have a Powerbook G4 1.25GHz, running 10.4.0, and today started having problems with Microsoft Excel 2004. Prior to this, all programs in the Office suite had been running smoothly for 1+ years.
I was working on a spreadsheet and attempted to change the format of the dates in various cells from mm/dd/yy to another format. I immediately got the spinning beachball of death, and I had to force quit Excel and restart.
Repeated the process several times on that spreadsheet, with the same crashing result each time.
Pulled up a different, already-created spreadsheet, same thing. Created a new spreadsheet, same thing.
Excel only seems to crash/become unresponsive when I have selected a cell, selected the option "Format Cells", and then select either "Date" or "Time" under the "Number" tab. In other words I can change the settings under any of the other tabs (e.g., Alignment, Borders, Protection) in the "Format Cells" worksheet without problem. I can also select any of the other categories under the "Number" tab (e.g., Text, Custom, General) without problem.
I have repaired permissions, deleted preferences, reinstalled Microsoft Office, all without success. Any ideas?
Thanks for your help.
I have a Powerbook G4 1.25GHz, running 10.4.0, and today started having problems with Microsoft Excel 2004. Prior to this, all programs in the Office suite had been running smoothly for 1+ years.
I was working on a spreadsheet and attempted to change the format of the dates in various cells from mm/dd/yy to another format. I immediately got the spinning beachball of death, and I had to force quit Excel and restart.
Repeated the process several times on that spreadsheet, with the same crashing result each time.
Pulled up a different, already-created spreadsheet, same thing. Created a new spreadsheet, same thing.
Excel only seems to crash/become unresponsive when I have selected a cell, selected the option "Format Cells", and then select either "Date" or "Time" under the "Number" tab. In other words I can change the settings under any of the other tabs (e.g., Alignment, Borders, Protection) in the "Format Cells" worksheet without problem. I can also select any of the other categories under the "Number" tab (e.g., Text, Custom, General) without problem.
I have repaired permissions, deleted preferences, reinstalled Microsoft Office, all without success. Any ideas?
Thanks for your help.
Comments
You've already done everything I would have suggested.... Ummm.... So it's still doing this after you re-installed Excel? The ONLY thing I can think of is if you downloaded an Excel document from the internet and upon opening came up with the "Allow Cookies for this sheet"-ish warning and clicked "Allow" that maybe it somehow infected your app. HOWEVER, a re-installation of the program should have fixed that.
If you've re-installed the entire Office Suite, try intalling just Excel (if that's possible...I'm not for sure.) If there's no gold with all this, we'll try to figure something else out.
Some more quick info...
The spreadsheet was emailed to me, and may (I'm not sure) have been created by exporting data from a database into an Excel spreadsheet. In other words, I'm not sure it was data originally created in Excel. Would that matter?
I emailed the spreadsheet to my wife, who has an iBook G4, and she was able to do all the date/time formatting that I was unable to do.
I did not get any kind of message upon opening the file.
I will try reinstalling just Excel today, if that's possible. Thanks for your response.
Originally posted by YellowLab
I emailed the spreadsheet to my wife, who has an iBook G4, and she was able to do all the date/time formatting that I was unable to do.
That means it might be your system date/time settings.
Try making a new user account on your computer and using that account to edit the file. That will use the default system date/time formats.