SmartView 11.1.2.1 - Functionality - Excel 2010

Hi,
Have users experiencing the following issues:
1 - In their template they have formatting on text (bold, colors) and columns (widths). When they refresh they lose all of that. I indicated they should check the 'Use Excel Formatting' on the SmartView options. However that doesn't seem to be working fully. The text format holds, but the column widths etc don't. Also, if they save the file and re-open it, they lose the setting. Is there a fix for this?
2 - If they have Three members in a row and both members are rollups. If they drill on one member, it automatically drills on both members. They need the ability to only drill on what member they choose to drill on. They are in ad hoc mode. For example if their Row is:
Q1
Q2
Q3
And they drill on Q2 only. They want the result:
Q1
Mar
Apr
May
Q2
Q3
Is that possible?

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Some Smart View Functions Do Not Work in Excel 2010 64-bit. [ID 1463814.1]
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When using Smart View (SV) with Microsoft Office 2010 SP1 some SV functions do not work or cause Excel application to crash.
Cause
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Solution
Use the 32-bit version of Smart View until Microsoft issues fix for their 64-bit Office products.
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Dim objFolder As Object
Dim objFile As Object
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    Dim wb As Workbook
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[Ref 1] B. McCullough, B. Wilson. On the Accuracy of Statistical Procedures in Microsoft Excel 97.
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. Vol. 31 No. 1, pp 27-37. July 1999.
http://users.df.uba.ar/cobelli/LaboratoriosBasicos/excel97.pdf
[Ref 2]L. Knüsel. On the accuracy of the statistical distributions in Microsoft Excel 97. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. Vol. 26 No. 3, pp 375-377. January 1998.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167947397817562
[Ref 3]B. McCullough, B. Wilson. On the Accuracy of Statistical Procedures in Microsoft Excel 2000 and Excel XP.
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. Vol.40 No. 4, pp 713-721. October 2002.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016794730800162X
[Ref 9] G. Melard. On the Accuracy of Statistical Procedures in Microsoft Excel 2010. Computational Statistics. Vol.29 No. 5, pp 1095-1128. October 2014.
http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~gmelard/rech/gmelard_csda23.pdf
[Ref 10] L. Knüsel. On the Accuracy of Statistical Distributions in Microsoft Excel 2010. Department of Statistics - University of Munich, Germany.
http://www.csdassn.org/software_reports/excel2011.pdf

I found the same KB article:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/828795
This was introduced (according to the article) in Excel 2003. Perhaps the references in notes 2 and 3 might help.
The article describes combining the results of 3 generators, each similar to a Multiply With Carry (MWC) generator, but with zero carry. MWC generators do very well on the Diehard battery of randomness tests (mentioned in your references), and have
very long periods. But using zero carry makes no sense to me.
Combining the three generators only helps if the periods of the 3 are relatively prime (despite what the article implies). Then the period of the result will be the product of the 3 periods. But without knowing the theory behind these generators, I have
no idea what the periods would be. The formulas for MWC generators fail here.
Richard Mueller - MVP Directory Services

Calling DDE from Excel 2010 crashing on Win 8.1 VM

Trying to use DDE to connect Excel to an external application (Vensim DSS) on a windows 8.1 virtual machine (VM) which seems to hang Excel (specifically when you call DDEInitiate). I have no problems with the same VBA script (code reproduced below if needed)
on a standard PC with windows 8.1 and Vensim DSS. Also a previous incarnation with windows 7 VM and Vensim worked with no problem. Does anybody have ideas what is different on a win 8.1 VM or some process that I need to ensure is running on the VM for DDE
to work?
I have tried with Excel 2003, Excel 2007 and Excel 2010 and all experience the same issue of hanging when calling the DDEInitiate function.
Many thanks in advance,
Dave
Option Explicit
Dim DDE_channel As Integer
Function StartupDDE() As Boolean
Dim blnIsRunning As Boolean
On Error GoTo Err_Handler
blnIsRunning = VensimRunningCheck
'Check to see if Channel Number has already been assigned
If Not DDE_channel > 0 Or blnIsRunning = False Then
'Channel not assigned - check to see if Vensim running
If blnIsRunning = False Then
'Vensim not running - try to open
Dim RetVal
RetVal = Shell("C:\Program Files (x86)\Vensim\Vensim.exe", vbMaximizedFocus)
AppActivate "Microsoft Excel"
Excel.Application.Visible = True
End If
'Connect to Vensim
DDE_channel = Application.DDEInitiate("VENSIM", "System")
End If
StartupDDE = True
Exit Function
Err_Handler:
MsgBox "There was an error trying to connect to Vensim. Please close and reopen Vensim manually", vbExclamation
+ vbOKOnly, "Vensim Connect Error"
StartupDDE = False
End Function

Hi,
As far as I know, the DDE is a very old technology, I recommend we try to use the Access object model instead of DDE.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff192120(v=office.15).aspx
If you have any further question about debugging code, I recommend you post the question to the MSDN forum for Excel
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=exceldev&filter=alltypes&sort=lastpostdesc
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

PDFMaker in Excel 2010 does not appear after installing Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard

I installed Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard for a user here at work on her computer with Windows XP and Office 2010 installed. She wanted the feature and/or plug-in that allows her to "Save as Adobe PDF" in Excel 2010 and then able to add/remove pages from a spreadsheet in Excel 2010 like this:
Which brings it to this screen:
We saw this feature with someone who has Acrobat X Standard. Is this feature available in Acrobat 9? If so, how do we enable it? We updated Acrobat 9 and nothing showed up.

The PDFMaker function of Acrobat 9 is not compatible with Office 2010: http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/compatible-web-browsers-pdfmaker-applications.html
You can use Acrobat 9 to create PDF files though by choosing File > Print within Excel and selecting the Adobe PDF printer.
Wish I had better news for you!
Please let us know if you have any questions.
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