Excel 2007 calculation display bug!

Microsoft just announced an issue with Microsoft Excel 2007 that causes incorrect numbers to be displayed in about 12 specific circumstances. These circumstances are a remote, but real possibility for our clients and we wanted to alert you to the problem.

The basic issue, is that it is possible for a calculation that would have resulted in a number around 65,536 to be displayed incorrectly. Microsoft is aware of this issue and has posted information on their Microsoft Excel blog site at: http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2007/09/25/calculation-issue-update.aspx.

They expect to have a fix and a patch for this very soon. Please note that other versions besides 2007 are not affected by this bug.

Keep your eye out for an Office update to fix this issue or feel free to give us a call.

Derek Rowan
President
HLP Associates, Inc.
www.hlp.net

Office 2003 Service Pack 3 keeps you from opening older files!

If you open up old files often older versions of office (like Word, Powerpoint, or Excel files prior to version 97) or from older programs such as Lotus 1-2-3, Corel Draw the new Service Pack 3 for Office 2003 has just been released and it will keep you from opening these files.

One of the features of this new service pack is the automatic blocking of file types from being opened (or saved) within the program that Office feels is potentially unsafe. While for most of us, this shouldn’t be an issue, we had one client (Thanks Buddy!) report a bug in which he was unable to open any of these types of files even if he used the Microsoft recommended work arounds to allow them.

This was a problem for him as he had quite a few older files that he needed to access. You can find more information at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938810/ or feel free to call us.


Derek Rowan
President
HLP Associates, Inc.
http://www.hlp.net/