Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
As seen in a plethora of other forums, many are having this issue and
wondered if anyone has found a fix...
Opening an Excel 2004 do***ent (with formulas) in Excel 2008 has many of
the cells filled with the pound sign. If I widen the column, even MORE show
up as just the pound sign. If I make the column smaller, I can get most to
show correctly, which seems counter-intuitive.
However, if I just change the font of the entire do***ent to something
other than MetaPlus (default I think), it shows up just fine. If I open the
file in 2004, shows up fine.
This is reproducible on every machine we've tested on. The same font is
being used in the 2004 do***ent, so why would 2008 not be able to show it
correctly? This client has tons of these files, and are not going to be
changing the font on them all (and they shouldn't have to obviously). So we
just need to know why this is happening and how to fix it. Right now they
are sticking with 2004 until this can be resolved... and are not happy
about it ;-)
A quick google search will show that we are not alone, which is what I did
first, but many are just giving up and I have not found a good solution
yet.
Thank you very much!
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