Opening Mac Excel files on a PC
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- gingerbreadlady
I know this is REALLY boring....sorry!
But I have a client who I have designed some Excel spreadsheets for (on my Mac) and when they open them on a PC, they don't look the same...the alignment is different. If I then change the alignment on the PC version and open it on a Mac, it makes it even worse and comes over onto two pages.
Any ideas on how to make the Mac / PC Excel files work seamlessly???
Thanks
- monospaced0
it might be a font thing
- gingerbreadlady0
sadly it is not a font thing...the fonts are installed on both computers and are previewing fine...
Any other ideas??
:-(
- gingerbreadlady0
sadly it is not a font thing...the fonts are installed on both computers and are previewing fine...
Any other ideas??
:-(
- gingerbreadlady0
sadly it is not a font thing...the fonts are installed on both computers and are previewing fine...
Any other ideas??
:-(
- gingerbreadlady0
The .docx is a Word format...not Excel.
Have tried that...
- Raniator0
.doc... what on earth am I talking about?! I need to pay more attention. There is .xlsx as well though, right? But yeah... if you've already tried that.
- tesmith0
It can work, may be conflicting preferences?
- goldieboy0
Do you guys have the same version of excel?
*throws-up a little just thinking about excel*"Excel files are compatible as long as they are the same version or greater. All Excel file types are backward compatible with older versions of Excel."
- gingerbreadlady0
Hello Mr Golden!!!
Well here lies an interesting thing you see...
PC versions are 2007 and Mac are 2008...so no, not the same version me thinks...
I bet they think I am a SH1T designer cos i can not figure this one out?!!!
D'oh!!!
- vaxorcist0
argh!
I think Microsoft's idea of "compatibility" is that you can just read the numbers and text, not that it lines up the same.....
This sort of suckage is why I use PDF whenever I hand off a file created in Microsoft Oriface....
You might try asking the client to attempt to open the file in OpenOffice, it may actually be more compatible with Mac MS-Office than Windows MS-Office appears to be....
Also, does client have an old version of MS-Orifice?
- argh, I see PC 2007... try a PC with newer MS-Office, I think there's Orifice 2010?vaxorcist