Re: Stock Quotes in Excel 2008

On 4/30/08 12:38 PM, in article ee899fc.2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Walter_Ryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <Walter_Ryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I left a message last evening and forgot to include the request for
e-mail
> notification of replies so I am resubmitting it.
> I have been using Excel 2003 on my PC for several years and have built 4
> spreadsheets that utilize the dynamic stock quotes of msn.quote.
> It has worked like a champ in Excel 2003 and I had instant re****ts on my
> investments. Then I bought a mac and Office 2008 for Mac and none of
them
> work.
> Is there any progress or work being done on upgrading msn.quote to work
> correctly on Excel 2008 for Mac?
> If so, when might we be able to download it so I can continue with my
> investment review.
> Also, would the web queries be a tem****ary substitute if I closed the
Excel
> file and then reopened it to generate another query? MSN.quote will only
let
> you request an update about every 5 minutes so. Therefore, it would be
about
> the same as closing and re-opening the file.
> Anyone. Thanks for your help!
> Walt
I have no idea whether (or even if) MSN quotes will be made to work with
Excel 2008. But, since they are probably active-X controls, the short
answer
is never. However, I use web queries for this and it works fine. You don't
need to close and reopen the sheet, just refresh the query.

-- 
Bob Greenblatt [MVP], Macintosh
bobgreenblattATmsnDOTcom