On Sep 11, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Stephen Brownfield wrote:
My wife emailed me an Excel database to merge into mailing labels.
She is running Office 2008 on her MacBook Pro running 10.5. I am
running Office X on my iMac running 10.4.11.
Oh gawd, Office X used to be the buggiest version of Office on the
Mac, until Office 2008 came around. You sure can pick 'em.
On Sep 11, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Stephen Brownfield wrote:
I can open the file in Excel, but when I try to open it for a merge
through Word, Word crashes. Do I need to upgrade my version of
Office or is there a work around?
Office 2008 uses a very different file format than previous versions.
There is a converter
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx?pid=&fid=EDB6CD8F-832C-4123-8982-AC0C601EA0A7#viewer
Simpler would be saving the Excel file as tab delimited or CSV if you
don't mind stripping out formatting.
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