Rental Workbook on Open Office?

We have had a number of inquiries about Excel, the Rental Workbook, and different spreadsheet programs such as OpenOffice.

OpenOffice from OpenOffice.org does not come with VBA support, which means it will not run any coding or macros created in Excel. According to web research, you may be able to try a complete build of version 2.4, though we cannot offer support for non-Microsoft issues. Continue reading

File Error: Data may have been lost

We’ve had reports from a number of customers regarding the issue you reported where they were using a combination of Excel 2000 and Internet Explorer (“IE”) 7 or 8. (Not so much recently, as a lot of people have since upgraded to version 2007).

Update: This error now appears with some installs of Office 2003.  for reference, please read this Microsoft update article.  If you have Service Pack 2 installed (SP2), you may be able to download a hot-fix at this Microsoft update page, which also explains how to download SP2 if you don’t yet have it.  Please note, once Microsoft issue their next update for Office 2010, Office 2003 will no longer be supported so the following paragraphs will also apply. Continue reading