Microsoft Fix it BLOG : Excel

Fix graphics over RDP in Office

davecal_ms — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:00:00 GMT

The caption text for ActiveX components in Excel 2007 is distorted when you use the Mstsc.exe command together with the /span switch to span multiple monitors
A graphic image changes unexpectedly when you copy it from Excel 2003 to another Office 2003 program in a spanned RDP session

When you use the Mstsc.exe command together with the /span switch to extend a desktop onto other monitors, Excel behaves unexpectedly across multiple monitors.

Allow damaged AutoShape object open for Office

davecal_ms — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:23:54 GMT

When you try to open an Office file that contains a damaged AutoShape object in Office 2003 Service Pack 3, you receive an error message: "<Office application> experienced an error trying to open the file"

On a computer that is running Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3), you try to open an Office file that contains a damaged AutoShape object. When you do this, you cannot open the file. Additionally, you receive an error message that resembles the following error message:

Office application experienced an error trying to open the file. Try these suggestions. Check the file permissions for the document or drive. Make sure there is sufficient free memory and disk space. Open the file with the Text Recovery converter.

This Fix it solution enables functionality provided by the following hotfix:

950522: Description of the Office 2003 hotfix package: March 21, 2008

Enable hotfix for SupportUNCMappedDriveSaveAs in Excel 2003

davecal_ms — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:23:37 GMT

Error message when you try to save an Excel 2003 workbook that was opened from a mapped drive location: "cannot be accessed"

When you try to save a Microsoft Office Excel 2003 workbook that was opened from a mapped drive location (such as Z:\folder), you may receive one of the following error messages:

'path\filename.xls' cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the document is stored on may not be responding.
Runtime error 1004: Cannot access path\filename

This Fix it solution enables functionality provided by the following Service Pack and hotfix:

870924: How to obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003

833855: Excel 2003 hotfix package: February 29, 2004

Fix spanning mode RDP graphics in Office

davecal_ms — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:00:00 GMT

The text in a Graph object in an Office 2003 application seems to overlap or seems to be squeezed together when you use Excel 2003 on a Terminal Services client that is running in Monitor Spanning mode

Solution Information

This Fix it Solution automates enabling the Excel 2003 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package for Graph.msp discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 958145.

Improve Excel macro performance

davecal_ms — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:00:00 GMT

When you use a macro to automatically write and format data in an Excel 2007 workbook, the macro runs slowly

Solution Information

This Fix it Solution automates enabling the August 26, 2008 Excel 2007 hotfix package discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 956798.

Enable and Disable MOICE

davecal_ms — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:00:00 GMT

Description of the Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment update for the Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats

MOICE must be the registered handler for each supported document format.

Solution Information

This Fix it Solution automates enabling and disabling Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE) for all supported document formats automatically.

Microsoft Fix it Solution for NORMDIST Fix is Live!

davecal_ms — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT

An Excel 2003 formula returns the #NUM! error flag when the formula uses the NORMDIST function

We just released another Fix it Knowledge Base (KB) article. This Fix it addresses the following scenario:

A Microsoft Office Excel 2003 formula contains the statistical function NORMDIST. Additionally, the X value for this function has a value that is equal to or greater than 1,000,000,000. In this case, the formula returns the following error flag:
#NUM!