Mac Office 2004 Excel CRASHES

[boris.tsk]

I've been mainly using Word and Excel, and have been relatively happy
with it.
But recently, by doing a lot of copy and pasting (excel charts to word
document),
the programs crash and have to restart, which is very annoying.
I realised that it was most likely due to the full "clipboard"
I tried to find the clipboard but i could not find it.

Q1. Is it true that there is no clipboard in Mac Office? i know there
is the scrapbook, will i have to resort to using that (by clicking the
'add' button instead of the relatively simple copy+paste (ctrl+c and
ctrl+v)??? will using that and clearing the scrapbook ease my problems
to avoid crashes?

Q2. also, i find it really strange that i can seem to save files to a
specified location in mac office... For example: i wanted to save to
Documents>FOLDERNAME>SUBFOLDER... i can't seem to do that... as only a
handful of places are listed where i can save (eg desktop, documents,
etc.) Is there a way?

thanks if you can help,

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Q1. Is it true that there is no clipboard in Mac Office? i know there
is the scrapbook, will i have to resort to using that (by clicking the
'add' button instead of the relatively simple copy+paste (ctrl+c and
ctrl+v)??? will using that and clearing the scrapbook ease my problems
to avoid crashes?

MacOffice uses the system Clipboard. There isn't a separate Office
Clipboard as there is in WinOffice. It doesn't "fill up", nor does it
need to be emptied. I really doubt that the clipboard has anything to do
with your crashes...

It's possible that your workbook has become corrupted - try copying your
worksheets to a new workbook (via CMD-C/CMD-V).

It's also possible that your Word Normal template is corrupt. See

http://word.mvps.org/mac/macwordnormal.html#Test

to determine whether it needs to be replaced.

Q2. also, i find it really strange that i can seem to save files to a
specified location in mac office... For example: i wanted to save to
Documents>FOLDERNAME>SUBFOLDER... i can't seem to do that... as only a
handful of places are listed where i can save (eg desktop, documents,
etc.) Is there a way?

Office uses Mac OSX system dialogs for File I/O. When you save, click
the blue button to the right of the Save As filename box to open the
standard file browser.

 

[boris.tsk]

MacOffice uses the system Clipboard. There isn't a separate Office
Clipboard as there is in WinOffice. It doesn't "fill up", nor does it
need to be emptied. I really doubt that the clipboard has anything to do
with your crashes...

It's possible that your workbook has become corrupted - try copying your
worksheets to a new workbook (via CMD-C/CMD-V).

It's also possible that your Word Normal template is corrupt. See

http://word.mvps.org/mac/macwordnormal.html#Test

to determine whether it needs to be replaced.


Office uses Mac OSX system dialogs for File I/O. When you save, click
the blue button to the right of the Save As filename box to open the
standard file browser.

thank you for your answer.. it has certainly helped me figure out
Q2... and made me understand the clipboard situation...
i did see that finder had its own clipboard (that Mac Office 2004
uses), but it didnt have a clear function, or a list of my previously
copied items...

but thank you.. i will check to see if my templates are corrupt.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

i did see that finder had its own clipboard (that Mac Office 2004
uses), but it didnt have a clear function, or a list of my previously
copied items...

The Finder is an application that also uses the system Clipboard, just
as Mac Office and any other Mac-savvy application.

The Clipboard stores whatever data is cut or copied from a document
until another cut or copy operation is made. The Clipboard's contents
don't change when switching applications.

And you're right, it doesn't have a Clear function, nor does it retain
any information about what was cut or copied previously. There are
third-party applications that do this...