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Made on excel 2007 - so anything compatible and should run ok.

Hope its useful to a few.

Qsheet E19.xlsx
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sexy

Wasn't it the .xlsx format that is new in MS Office 2007 products that gave us all the probs in the first place?? I have Office 2003 (still) and I DL'd Office 2007 compatibility pack, spreadsheet would freeze, DL's Excel 2007 Viewer so I could at least look at the sheet, it would freeze on opening (by freeze I mean the windows hourglass "I'm thinking about it but never doing anything" effect). I tried DL'd and installing Sun/Java Open Orifice (yes thats what I meant) at the suggestion of someone and all I got was another half Gig of disk space used up and the Venga virus, and it would not open .xlsx format.

So if you mean you created it on Office Excel 2007 but saved it away in an older Office 2003/XP format then OK, maybe that will work, but mine won't open anything with .xlsx extensions. HAHA

This one does the same thing, displays hourglass/freezes, someone told me to wait it may be converting it with compatibility pack, so I waited 17-18 minutes and it would still not open. It did come up with an error message when I tried to close out excel:

"Microsoft Officer Excel is waiting for another application to finish an OLE action."

Didn't know if this info would help anyone.

Affy (Computer engineer but too stupid to figure this out...)

EDIT!!
Apologies, tried again and waited, well, indefinitely I walked away from PC and came back about 25-30 minutes later and the spreadsheet had opened, but in "Read Only" mode. Anything I tried to enter it would ask me to go to the Unprotect under Tools menu, when I do that it asks for a password.

Anyway, whatever conversion takes place to open this sheet must crunch my poor Dell PC to its knees for 20 minutes plus...

the sheet is protected.. you just enter things into the green boxes.
I made it that way so you dont accidentally change the formulas

Im not sure why it takes so long to load for you though

If you don't have Excel 2007 it doesn't work right. You can download the latest OpenOffice and then it will open up and work just fine. Thank You S1eepy.

i would have done it on an older version, but I have 2007, so thats what i used. When I tried to save it as an older version it doesnt work because there are too many "if" function in each formula. So will have to stick with 2007 for now

Apparently my Dell Quad Pentium must just suck-_ _ _, not sure why I am having the problems. Interesting though, that I can open it with MS Office 2003 with the compatibility pack installed, it just runs some sort of conversion that takes anywhere from 18-25 minutes. I am sure there are factors like Anti-virus programs, Ad-ware/Spyware blockers, etc that must be adding lots of overhead to such a conversion process. I have had a couple of bouts with some stupid viruses, Tenga, and another that both added code onto random .exe files so I have my heuristics and other things set really high for now.

Also, I can't add numbers to any box, colored or not, so somewhere in the conversion it protects all the cells, apparently. Guess I'll have to bite off on MS Office 2007 if I really want to check it out proper!

Also, I tried Open Orifice (Open Office) pretty much the complete package, and it would not open the file, although, it may have the same delay?? Never waited more than 3-5 minutes with Open Office. That, and the fact that within a day or so of loading Open Office I started having the issues with one year and two year old viruses in my PC. Nasty little buggers that were annoying to clean out completely. Kept losing lots of .exe files, so lucky I keep backups so I could restore the required .exe files and good downloads that were infected. Open Office probably was just a coincidence, BUT, it still did not keep me from coining it "Open Orifice" as that is what happened to my "orifice" when I installed it.