I cannot open excel but word and powerpoint do open
I cannot open excel but word and powerpoint are OK. what have I done to create this?
I supposed that you knew which applications you have on the computer. Pages is an application in the iWork suite and so are Keynote and Numbers. If you don't have them you have some other applications. Have a look in the application folder.
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Installed the latest itunes update and now I cannot save my Microsoft Word and Excel documents.
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Thank you everyone. I apologize to confusing all but I am up to date and running OS X 10.8.2. It's possible I purchased the key for Office but I don't think so although it was 3-4 years ago. I guess I will stop in the Apple Store and just ask. I may just buy the new bundle anyway to get the most updated.
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If you updated from 2003 that must be on a Windows machine, can you recover them from there?
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Your Windows system will not open any Pages, Numbers or Keynote documents. No applications exist for Windows that can open those formats. You will need to export your documents in Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats, respectively, before you'll be able to view and edit the documents on your Windows system. The iWork documents can natively open Word, Excel and PP documents, though there are limitations on what can be imported (for instance, Numbers does not support all possible Excel functions). Consult the documentation for the relevant iWork application for details on importing and exporting.
If you are asking how to get the documents from one system to the other, then there are several ways to do that, including file sharing, using an external drive (hard drive, USB flash drive), or emailing the documents to yourself. Which would be best for your situation I can't say without more details about your usage.
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Whenever I Start my Mac up, Mail, Microsoft word and Powerpoint open up.How do I stop this?
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It's the Resume feature of Lion:
Managing Mac OS X Lion's application resume feature.
If you shutdown your computer you should get a dialog asking if you want applications to resume on the next startup. Simply uncheck the box to prevent that from occurring. Open General preferences and uncheck the option to Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps. You can also install a third-party utility to control resume features on individual applications: RestoreMeNot or Application State Cleaner. -
As the heading says, I downloaded the free Word and PowerPoint apps. Then I purchased an Office 360 subscription through the iTunes store. However, the apps are not recognizing that I have done so. I have signed in and out multiple times. Help!
In my expereince with Office 365 (in other arenas of functionality, but seems consistant), it may take a while for the purchase to register properly on the server. (yeah - welcome to Microsoft's cloud implementation. A joy and wonder to behold <sarcasm intended> )
Otherwise, try a reset: Simultaneously hold down the Home and On buttons until the device shuts down. Ignore the off slider if it appears. Once shut down is complete, if it doesn't restart on it own, turn the device back on using the On button. In some cases it also helps to double click the Home button and close all apps BEFORE doing the reset.
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Pages and key note not compatible with word and powerpoint
Dear members
I have received valuable help here, but still pages does not open word documents, I am having problems because I am the only person in my organisation who uses Mac! All the documents are in word format. Yvan kindly helped me and told me to use some tests. I wonder what kind of tests are, I spoke with Apple care, they spent 40 min on the phone doing the following after explaining:
I have a new Mac pro laptop which came as a replacement because the first one had a problem with bluetooh.
The previous Mac pro could open word and powerpoint using pages and key note
When I received the new mac pro I passed the information to the previous one to this one using time machine
I noticed immediately that the new mac pro could not open word using pages
After this I have received snow leopard , installed it , the problem remains
I explained this to the technician on the phone
Then:
put caches on desktop
updated the snow leopard to 10.6.1
created a file and saved as a word file using pages, but pages still not open the same doc created by it
The technician tried to contact a senior member and I was left waiting for 20 min to speak with a senior and never happened, I called again and they did the same
Of course that there is something wrong with my system because the previous faulty mac could open word and powerpoint
Any ideas?
Best Regards
OmarI love iWork, but honestly, if I were the only one in an organization to use a Mac, I would get NeoOffice or Open Office, which are intended to be directly compatible with their Microsoft equivalents. Or, you know, buy MS Office for the Mac.
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Many thanks for your help
YannickDear Varjak,
Many thanks for your reply. I agree it is a Microsoft product but used on a mac.... As many of us (Mac' users) are still using Office (sometime relunctantly but no option), I am hoping for a response from a Mac user' point of view. I have spotted differences between Mac office and Microsoft office and would therefore appreciate answers from a Mac user.
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With 1.1.1 update on Sep 2, excel opens and then closes immediately. same with word and powerpoint
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Try this - Reset the iPad by holding down on the Sleep and Home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons. (This is equivalent to rebooting your computer.) No data/files will be erased. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
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Troubleshooting apps purchased from the App Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1702
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ALERT to the possibility of bad use of FRAUD in FAKES APPLICATIONS to iPad in iTunes Store. I bought two applications: Word Office, and PowerPoint - $20,00 each-, because the advertising announce it's as Productivity Applications, able to work with them and consequently, to write, to save the works, to print, and else. But it's is ABSOLUTELY FALSE because this FAKE APPLICATIONS only PRETEND to be, but really its contains a BUNCH OF TUTORIALS VIDEOS!!!. So if you need applications to write, a make presentations or else, I strongly recommend PAGES, NUMBERS and KEYNOTE, the Apple applications and your money to be save and guaranteed!. I really think that the iTUNES STORE and the APPLEI STORE must to be policy ALL the applications products BEFORE authorized the sell in his official site!.
Is this one of the apps that you bought?
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 - Be Expert
It may not be completely obvious, but it is, at least, categorized as Education with an, albeit small, disclaimer "(noted: this app is not the PowerPoint from Microsoft)"
The description is accurate, as it is all "What you can know" and "What you can learn" but they probably should use a different icon to avoid confusion. -
Word and PowerPoint not starting up
Up until late last week, Office 2004 worked fine for me (I know that I ran PowerPoint on Thursday, after the 10.5.3 update).
This week, Word freezes on the blue info box while opening up. When I go to Force Quit, it says that it is "not responding".
PowerPoint does the same thing, but it gets past the opening orange box. I can see the toolbar, but then it freezes, and I have to force quit.
Note that Excel is working fine through all of this.
I try updating to the latest version of Office (11.4.2, I guess I had 11.4.1). Same thing.
So I uninstall, and re-install using the CD. Out of the box, the programs are running fine. I download ALL EIGHT updates, and start the update process, one at a time. After 11.4.0, I stop and try opening the programs: they are freezing again. Upgrade to 11.4.2, and now PowerPoint works, but Word still freezes.
I don't know what else to try... any ideas? I really hate the idea of giving Microsoft more money (for 2008) simply because their old version stopped working.
UPDATE: well, I got PPT to run once, now it is freezing...
Matthew
Message was edited by: Matthew KellingMost likely, you have a buildup of "transaction files" in the mboxlist directory. This is caused by one or more processes crashing, and leaving the database locked, so stored cannot process those transactions.
You can do one of three things:
1. Attempt to start the server. Stored will start, and start processing the transaction files. Eventually, it will complete that processing. To tell when this happens, note the PID file in your server's config directory. The one for stored will contain, "initializing" until it's done, and then say, "ready". You can then successfully start the rest of the server.
2. Remove all of the files named, "LOG*" in mboxlist directory. Start the server up, and it should start nomally. IMPORTANT: You must run reconstruct -m after removing the log files, to re-create the data that you removed. Users may complain that new mail folders are missing, until the reconstruct completes.
3. LAST RESORT, "rapid recovery". To be used in case of disaster only. . . .
Remove all files and directories in mboxlist.
start the server; it should start immediately. Users will only have access to INBOX
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I have just taken delivery of my very first MacBook Pro so I am new to all that goes on under the cover. Can anyone tell me how I open the pre-installed programmes which are compatible with Word, Excel and Powerpoint?
ThanksYour welcome, gald to be of help
Welcome to Apple Support Communites and to the Mac, after a little time you will be flying!
Make sure if you have not done so yet to run software update to make sure you MBP is up to date, you can do this by clicking on the Apple logo at the top left on your menu bar, and clicking on Software update.
One other thing that will help you when posting here is to make syre your profile is up to date/correct. You have in your profile as of now your MBP model and year which is freat, but you have for your operating system, iOS(mobile devces) 7.02, which would be for and iPhone, iPad, iPod. Your MacBook Pro operates on OSX (which in your case should be 10.8.5, you can find this info under the Apple logo, About this Mac) having this info available to anyone reading a question post is very helpful for them offer advice/sugesstions that may apply to your particular OSX, as well as eliminating confusion.
Thank you for the green check, by marking your respones it helps other users to find solutions if they are having a similar issue, if you are looking for something, after typing yor question, check the right hand side bar under "More Like This" and sometimes you may find an answer there.
Synergy is a great thing.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities and enjoy your new Mac.
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View Word and PowerPoint in browser no longer working
Hi There,
I have SharePoint 2010 environment. I configured Word Viewing Service and PowerPoint service accordingly and all working perfectly. But recently it didn't work any more. I deleted services and recreate services, even stop and restart the service from Central
Administration interface didn't make it working. I got same error message as below:
I found some suggestions from Google, and I did check the setting, but I didn't fix the problem.
Regards,
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Fixing Office Web Apps "Network Connectivity has been lost error"
As given in article...
1. Run this script in PowerShell:
Remove-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -erroraction SilentlyContinue
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -erroraction SilentlyContinue
Write-Host -ForegroundColor White "--------------------------------------------------------------"
Write-Host -Foregroundcolor green "Fixing Word Viewing Service Application"
$e = Get-SPServiceApplication | where {$_.TypeName.Equals("Word Viewing Service Application")}
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Write-Host -Foregroundcolor green "Word Viewing Service Application is fixed"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor White "--------------------------------------------------------------"
Write-Host -Foregroundcolor green "Fixing PowerPoint Service Application"
Get-SPPowerPointServiceApplication | Set-SPPowerPointServiceApplication -EnableSandboxedViewing $false
Get-SPPowerPointServiceApplication | Set-SPPowerPointServiceApplication -EnableSandboxedEditing $false
Write-Host -Foregroundcolor green "PowerPoint Service Application is fixed"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor White "--------------------------------------------------------------"
2. Do an IIS reset on SharePoint Application Server.
Note: Office Web Apps must be installed on a farm which uses a domain controller. For standalone installations this fix will not
work. Before running this script please check the name of “Word Viewing Service Application“
and PowerPoint Service Application because it may differ in your system. You can check it either from central administration site or by running “Get-SPServiceApplication”
command.
Please remember to click 'Mark as Answer'
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Exporting simple tables in pdf to Excel or word and maintain correct text/column flow.
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