Comments | brighty18: MS Office Help!

brighty18

MS Office Help!

Jul 10, 2013 12:34

Hi! Lame as this sounds, I'm putting the call out for some tech help ( Read more... )

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whitestar July 10 2013, 18:57:59 UTC

I don't know anything about excel, but when I get messages like that for anything I'm doing, say for PSP, I'll stick the whole phrase into Google. I may also add in "What does this mean..."

brighty18 July 10 2013, 20:11:05 UTC

Yeah, I did that and learned that the last message (about AutoRecover) was an indication that everything was about to crash. Eeep!

ladibug21 July 10 2013, 19:13:51 UTC

Were there formulas in the original document? Even some that didn't have numbers calculated in them? I would try re-copying the data from the original document and when you paste it in the new document paste them as Values.

Thanks! brighty18 July 10 2013, 20:01:55 UTC

The weird part is that there were no formulas. However, I got a tip from another friend to select all and then "convert" the cells to text just in case. Apparently, sometimes the dash in a phone number can be interpreted as minus sign.

Good idea about cutting and pasting. That way we start fresh.

How's your day going?

Re: Thanks! ladibug21 July 10 2013, 20:26:42 UTC

I'm having my own Excel nightmare today. Ugghhh. Fortunately we're having a party at 2 so I can pretend it doesn't exist for awhile. :)

Re: Thanks! brighty18 July 11 2013, 05:19:48 UTC

Nice. Excel really is kind of evil, I believe. What was your nightmare like?