Macbook pro is automatically saving excel spreadsheets as read-only, Macbook pro is automatically saving excel spreadsheets as read-only
I'm a new MacBook user and my MacBook Pro is automatically saving my Excel spreadsheets as read-only Word is doing the same too. Can anyone tell me how I can set these programs so that they don't automatically save as read-only please?
Okay - went thru the process of completely removing Office and re-installing. This seems to fix the problem related to Excel. Now what should happen when Microsoft wants to install Office updates? I believe I recently installed an Office update and maybe that could have contributed to this problem. I can't be doing this everytime there is an update from MS or Apple...
Thanks for your help..
-Steve-
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Hello! So I own a 13" rMBP, and I'm running OSX 10.9.4.
How do I log my battery percentage with the date, probably down to the hour, preferably to an Excel file?
I want to track the rate at which my battery discharges, so that in the future I can compare the present rate of discharge with the past and see exactly how much my battery has deteriorated by. I'll take averages over long periods of time to account for, e.g. the fact that watching Netflix drains my battery faster than editing an essay. I also want a solution that uses negligible power in the background.
I've spent hours looking for an app that both calculates the rate of discharge and keeps all data, but I haven't found any. Eventually I decided that hopefully it isn't too difficult to write an AppleScript or something that simply logs the system clock and battery percentage in tandem every hour or so.
Thank you for your time!
HermanWhat Barney said.
Here is the script to create a CSV text file with
Date
Time
Current Battery Percentage as an integer
#!/bin/bash
batterycsv="$HOME/battery.csv"
export GREP_OPTIONS="--color=never"
# if you want the percentage sign too, exclude the second egrep
battpct=$(pmset -g ps | egrep -o "(\d+)%" | egrep -o "\d+")
datetime=$(date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
printf "%s,%s,%s\n" $datetime $battpct >> $batterycsv
Output on a fully charged MacBook Air to battery.csv will be individual lines of the following format:
2014-08-09,19:49,100 -
Whenever I turn my MacBook pro on, all the other stuff is loaded (MS word/excel/powerpoint), Spotify, iCal, etc are automatically loaded, so in order for me to go to my desired website, I have to close (x) out all applications loaded. Please advise.
If you are using Lion:
Dealing With 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.
It is possible to completely stop the Resume feature although I'm unconvinced that it is that annoying. Nevertheless see the following:
If you have not yet done so you must first make your /Home/Library/ folder visible. Open the Terminal application in the Utilities folder. At the prompt paste the following command line:
chflags nohidden ~/Library
Press RETURN. Quit the Terminal application.
In the Finder navigate to the /Home/Library/Saved Application State/ folder. Delete the contents of the folder. Back up to the /Home/Library/ folder. Select the Saved Application State folder. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. In the Sharing and Permissions panel at the bottom click on the lock icon and authenticate. Set each of the listed entries to Read Only. Close the Get Info window.
Quit all open programs except the Finder (this is very important.) Next, navigate to the /Home/Library/Preferences/ByHost/ folder. Look for a .plist file with "com.apple.loginwindow." in the file name followed by some numbers in hexadecimal. Select the file. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window and in the Sharing and Permissions panel click on the lock icon and authenticate. Set each of the listed entries to Read Only. Close the Get Info window. If you also find a file with the same filename but with a last extension of ".lockfile," then you should delete it.
The above should eliminate the Resume feature system-wide. Note that any future system updates or upgrades will likely undo these changes. You will then need to repeat this procedure assuming there are no major changes in OS X related to it. -
How come my macbook Pro doesn't automatically connect to my wifi when it is saved under known networks and i have the box checked under network settings?
Random35,
does your wi-fi router filter access by MAC address? If it does, then have you added your MacBook Pro’s MAC address to your router’s whitelist of acceptable MAC addresses? -
Using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI and Excel 14.3.8 on a mac.
Saved PDF as "optimized PDF" then "save as other" > spreadsheet > Microsoft Excel Workbook.
Problem: numbers in some random dates are transposed so that month and day are reversed. No particular pattern to these errors. Only fix we've found is to go through and manually check and correct the date errors - there are hundreds of these errors in the document so this is not a good solution.
(Note: Excel columns with dates are specified as "date" fields. All dates are formatted as m/d/yy)
Any ideas what's causing this problem problem and how to fix it?
Thanks in advance![discussion moved to Creating, Editing & Exporting PDFs forum]
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I upgraded to mountain lion a week ago and now on startup of my macbook pro, microsoft excel and word start up automatically and then crash? very strange can anyone please help? I have checked the login items under users and groups and there is nothing.
Are you using the Office for Mac 2011 version, as you need to do? The Office for Mac 2004 is Not at all compatible with Mountain Lion, and the 2008 version has been noted to have some problems running with ML.
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I forget to charge my MacBook Pro and it turned off because of that. Now it wont automatically connect to saved networks. I have to put in manually to make it work. Even after restating still the same. If I close the lid it looses conection. Sometimes pulling the Battery out will fixes it untill we forget to chage it.
Mac OS X version 10.6.8I forget to charge my MacBook Pro and it turned off because of that. Now it wont automatically connect to saved networks. I have to put in manually to make it work. Even after restating still the same. If I close the lid it looses conection. Sometimes pulling the Battery out will fixes it untill we forget to chage it.
Mac OS X version 10.6.8 -
Where are auto saved excel filed stored on a MacBook Pro?
Where are auto saved excel filed stored on a MacBook Pro?
Go to http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946
and check:
Where iTunes backups are stored on your computer -
Is it possible to print mailing labels from an excel spreadsheet in Macbook pro?
How do you print mailing labels from an excel spreadsheet on a macbook pro? Is it possible. I can only find information about printing labels from your address book.
Why not ask in MacBook Pro forum, or SL, or even MS community or MacTopia.
Office 2011? pretty easy to setup mailing, just click on ribbon tab, and use the built in help.
MacBook Pro
Mail and Address book
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Excel+mailing+labels -
How can i edit and save a spreadsheet or excel sheet on my MACbook pro
how can i edit and save and rename excel or spreedsheet on my macbook pro
Just download LibreOffice and click on the Spreadsheet icon in the splash screen:
...and it will open almost any Excel document...
(This is an old football roster created in Excel).
Good luck,
Clinton -
Since updating to iOS7 Pages saved to icloud don't automatically update on my Macbook Pro
The Pages documents get saved to icloud from my phone, but the documents appearing on my MacBook Pro haven't been updated since I updated my phone to ios7.
Sorry, I hadn't changed my profile before asking the question. I've always kept my OS up to date and have been running 10.8.5.
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Macbook Pro 2014 (16gb ram) running very slow in excel. Can anyone help?
My Macbook Pro 2014 is running extremely slow in Mac Excel 2011. I just recently made the purchase (Last week) to upgrade from my Macbook Pro 2013. The upgrade was for work as I handle large spreadsheets in my new role. It would take some time to load before, and I was told it was because I only had 4GB of RAM. Now, I have 16 GB of RAM and it runs slower than before. Can anyone assist me with a solution?
My Macbook Pro 2014 is running extremely slow in Mac Excel 2011. I just recently made the purchase (Last week) to upgrade from my Macbook Pro 2013. The upgrade was for work as I handle large spreadsheets in my new role. It would take some time to load before, and I was told it was because I only had 4GB of RAM. Now, I have 16 GB of RAM and it runs slower than before. Can anyone assist me with a solution?
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How do i get microsoft excel on my macbook pro?
hi, on my ipad/iphone i have docstogo which i use for my microsoft excel work, but what do i need to use to do the microsoft excel work on my new macbook pro? please help!
thanks xxThat will work to import Excel spreadsheets but you asked "how do i get microsoft excel on my macbook pro?". The answer remains, install Excel.
LibreOffice is a good alternative to MS Office but it is not 100% compatible. So if you are exporting spreadsheets from LibreOffice for others to import to Excel, be aware that the export may not be 100% as you intended. -
I am a relatively new APPLE type of guy.
I have a fancy new MACBOOK Pro and a fancy new IPHONE.
I've left the Micosoft world and have decided to embrace iWork.
Was happy to see app release of iwork for iphone - purchased it - and even though spreadsheets on a tiny phone are a bit tough to get used to - i've decided to keep track of my gym work outs on the phone.
So I set up a work-out spreadsheet on my mac - threw it it idisk - and sucked it into numbers on the phone.
So far so good.
Can't seem to figure out though how to have my iphone and mac syncing with any changes to the spreadsheet i make at either end. I have a copy on idisk - and when i save a change on the macbook the change is made to the idisk file - cool - but i can't figure out how when i'm at the gym entering new data - to have that info automatically updating the idisk version.
any ideas?
or am I just a dumb jock thinking that all of this is actually possible with out me continually bringing in new versions of the spreadsheet from idisk into the numbers version on the iphone?
thanks in advancesolidaj wrote:
or am I just a dumb jock thinking that all of this is actually possible with out me continually bringing in new versions of the spreadsheet from idisk into the numbers version on the iphone?
As far as I know, it's the way hey behave.
Numbers for mac OS is unable to exchange datas with an other file !
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 26 juin 2011 20:58:03
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8
Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community
To be the AW6 successor, iWork MUST integrate a TRUE DB, not a list organizer ! -
I am a scientist and run my own business. Money is tight. I have some very large Excel files (~200MB) that I need to sort and perform logic operations on. I currently use a MacBookPro (i7 core, 2.6GHz, 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3) and I am thinking about buying a multicore MacPro. Some of the operations take half an hour to perform. How much faster should I expect these operations to happen on a new MacPro? Is there a significant speed advantage in the 6 core vs 4 core? Practically speaking, what are the features I should look at and what is the speed bump I should expect if I go to 32GB or 64GB? Related to this I am using a 32 bit version of Excel. Is there a 64 bit spreadsheet that I can us on a Mac that has no limit on column and row size?
Grant Bennet-Alder,
It’s funny you mentioned using Activity Monitor. I use it all the time to watch when a computation cycle is finished so I can avoid a crash. I keep it up in the corner of my screen while I respond to email or work on a grant. Typically the %CPU will hang at ~100% (sometimes even saying the application is not responding in red) but will almost always complete the cycle if I let it go for 30 minutes or so. As long as I leave Excel alone while it is working it will not crash. I had not thought of using the Activity Monitor as you suggested. Also I did not realize using a 32 bit application limited me to 4GB of memory for each application. That is clearly a problem for this kind of work. Is there any work around for this? It seems like a 64-bit spreadsheet would help. I would love to use the new 64 bit Numbers but the current version limits the number of rows and columns. I tried it out on my MacBook Pro but my files don’t fit.
The hatter,
This may be the solution for me. I’m OK with assembling the unit you described (I’ve even etched my own boards) but feel very bad about needing to step away from Apple products. When I started computing this was the sort of thing computers were designed to do. Is there any native 64-bit spreadsheet that allows unlimited rows/columns, which will run on an Apple? Excel is only 64-bit on their machines.
Many thanks to both of you for your quick and on point answers!
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