Worksheet Buttons (Save, Save As, Cut, Paste, etc.) Not Working

[SuzieQ12345]

95% of these buttons are not showing as "active"; restarted Excel; rebooted
the machine (XP, Excel 2003), still not working. Can't save, can't work on
any worksheets. They are not protected.

 

[Rob van Gelder]

Is this a New workbook or one you've Opened?

 

[SuzieQ12345]

No, these are existing worksheets - but I tried it on new ones as well, same
problem. A little scary - can't use Excel w/o all of these buttons.

 

[JulieD]

Hi

is it possible that your copy of excel has not been activated (in some
countries activation was introduced in version 2000 in others ver 2002)

Cheers
JulieD

 

[SuzieQ12345]

How do I activate? It asks me each time I log on if I want to activate (not
sure if that's the exact wording) but if I go out to the internet, it says
I've tried to do it too many times (not sure if that's the exact language of
the error message - it's not up on the machine now).

 

[JulieD]

Hi

it's been a LONG time since i activated something, but i think there's an
activate via phone option rather than via the internet - maybe give that a
go?

Cheers
julieD