[OSX-Users] Re: Excel again

[Hugh Glaser]

Well I rarely get that far - I use the new Excel and Word as little as possible - basically only for viewing files; if I leave files open they both seem to hang/crash on me.
I open, view the file and then quit.
Bloody disaster at the moment.
> On 10 Feb 2016, at 09:33, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> I haven't seen that with Excel, but I have certainly seen (c) with Word quite a lot.
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> It appears the Windows version has serious bugs too. I was in a meeting last week where an iSol guy was trying to do some complicated lookups in Windows Excel, and it kept getting it all wrong. Save the file and go back to it again, and it was magically fixed.
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> :(
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> On 09/02/2016 22:28, Leslie Carr wrote:
>> Is it just me, or is the Excel UI (v.15.18) horribly horribly buggy. I see the following symptoms:
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>> (a) cells contents disappear, and only reappear after multiple repeated attempts at selecting/double-clicking their cells
>> (b) it becomes impossible to select ranges of cells, or the selection perimeter (solid, dark) is replaced by the copy perimeter (dashed, animated).
>> (c) parts of the sheet just disappear for a while.
>> —
>> les
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> Jules
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