I was using Office 2000 and had the same trouble. In order to use my
spreadsheets, I had to do it on the desktop that still had WE 7.2 on it. I
went from Office 2000 to 2003, though, and it's working again. I thought
it was an Excel that was too old to be compatible with WE 7.5.1, but you're
still having trouble, so I don't know.
Good luck!
Marilyn
At 10:17 PM 9/6/2011, you wrote:
OK, so I finally got the chance to upgrade to WE7.5.1. Not exactly a
pleasant experience. First of all, the WESounds app does not work any longer.
But the real problem arose when I try to open and work with some of my
Excel 2003 documents. Honestly, there has been no change to the documents.
They worked with WE7.2, but now they don't any longer. Yes, you guys, I
have gone through the hazzle of updating the set files. And yes, I have
turned off all apps. And yes, I did even restart Window-Eyes several times
- with and without apps.
What happens is that I can open the workbook (spreadsheet). About a second
later, a sound is beeping through my speakers. Then comes up a message
telling me that Excel has a problem, an error report has been generated,
and do I want to send it or not. First thing you would have thought, is
that this is a Microsoft problem. But there is two reasons why I do claim
it is not, and do hold a bit on to the claim that GW might have a job to
do here.
First of all, as I already have stated, the very same files worked just a
few hours ago, under WE7.2. All I have done, is to upgrade to 7.5.1, and
immediately the trouble arises.
Secondly, I did close WE, and load NVDA. With the free NVDA, I could work
troublefree with my documents. No error report, whatsoever. I could move
around, copy, paste and edit to my heart's desire.
I then closed down NVDA, and reloaded WE. Do I have to tell what happened?
Well, let me just bug you with telling. Right away, when opening the
spreadsheet, there was the trouble on again.
Sorry, GW! I am in the need of using my spreadsheets numerous times a day.
A free screen reader has no trouble in cooperating. Your paid for thing
has. If 7.5.1 cannot work with Excel 2003, I am sorry to say, it is not
worth a cent to upgrade. So, what can I possibly do here? Have I
overlooked some setting or adjustment that needs to be done after
upgrading? Or is this a bug, and youæd better downgrade to 7.2 till GW
gets it fixed? Oh yes, I have made sure the Excel.set is loaded, and that
the setfiles for Office 2003 are installed.
Well, sorry for the frustrated mail. But honestly I did read in the
installation process, the standard claim of GW's, that the screen reader
stands for stability and rock solidity. I don't really then expect to be
thrown off the wagon - by not being able to use my own documents any
longer. Specially so, when a free screen reader can perform the task fully
trouble free. That is a flaw...
If anyone can tell me what to do, I am totally open ears here.
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