Excel 4.0

[S & B]

Excell 4.0 quits whenever I click in the top menu. Is there a fix or a
workaround?

I have a lot of charts that need much cleanup when opened in Excel 2004
and, until I fix them, I'd like to use Excel 4.0

System is an iMac G5, OSX 10.4.6, Office 2004 (plus pieces of older
versions of Office, like Excel 4.0)

Thanks in advance.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

No. No version earlier than Office 98 (Excel 98) is supported on OS X in
Classic.

You need to use Excel 2004.

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**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
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[S & B]

No. No version earlier than Office 98 (Excel 98) is supported on OS X in
Classic.

You need to use Excel 2004.

Thanks.

That's what I was afraid of.

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

Excell 4.0 quits whenever I click in the top menu. Is there a fix or a
workaround?

I have a lot of charts that need much cleanup when opened in Excel 2004
and, until I fix them, I'd like to use Excel 4.0

System is an iMac G5, OSX 10.4.6, Office 2004 (plus pieces of older
versions of Office, like Excel 4.0)

Thanks in advance.

Excel 4 ought to work in classic mode. It was Excel 5 that had a bunch of
trouble. Is classic stable? Do other things run in classic mode? How much
memory have you assigned to Excel? As Paul Pointed out, Excel 4 can not work
in OS X.

 

[S & B]

Excel 4 ought to work in classic mode. It was Excel 5 that had a bunch of
trouble. Is classic stable? Do other things run in classic mode? How much
memory have you assigned to Excel? As Paul Pointed out, Excel 4 can not work
in OS X.

I should have said that I am trying to use Excel 4 in classic mode.

Excel 4 seems to work fine in classic mode, except for one thing: if I
click anywhere in the top menu bar, Excel immediately quits, with no
message of any kind. Any work in pogress is lost. I have allocated lots
of memory to Excel, like 10,000 KB, compared to the 2048KB originally
allocated (does that mean anything in an OSX system?) but no change in
behavior.

Otherwise classic works well, is stable and many programs, like Word 5.1
or WordPerfect 3.5e, behave perfectly while running under classic.

I think I have seen this Excel 4 problem mentioned elsewhere (but can't
remember where!) I hope that someone has discovered a way to get around
it