opening tablet PC excel files

[chrisdobrosky]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel My professor (temple univ) lectures and posts notes in excel using a stylus on a tablet pc. When I open the file, all of his notes with the stylus are bunched and jumbled at the top of the screen and reflect none of the formatting done during lecture. The text is fine, but the writing overlaps and is illegible.

Can I view these on my mac?

Thanks.

 

[CyberTaz]

That type of annotation is not a part of Word's features. It is handled by
separate software & the operating system [regardless of Mac/PC]. On a Mac,
OS X supplies a utility by the name of 'Ink'. However, it's only activated
when you install a tablet device, such as a Wacom unit. I don't know if
there is any way to take advantage of Ink without one... Or whether it would
support annotations from a different app even if you could.

You might ask in the Apple Discussions Forum for Snow Leopard:

http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[chrisdobrosky]

thanks Bob, here is the response I received from someone at Microsoft in case someone else is looking for the same functionality:

Yes, we were able to look into this problem, but unfortunately we aren't
able to fix it for Office 2008. We are working on a fix for our next major
version, which will ship later this year. If you have a file that shows
the problem and are able to share it, I will be happy to add it to our
database and we can use it for testing the fix in the next version of
Excel.