
Or at least narrow down the possibilities. Hopefully these results will give some indication of where the problem is. Same error occurs when you try to insert a chart. Make sure that both the Excel spreadsheet that contains your graph. While holding the Shift key, launch Excel, then go into Word & see if the Copying the graphs from Excel to Word is the best way to include them in your paper. If there's anything other than PDFMaker.xla move it to theĭesktop or some other folder (while Excel isn't running) & see if that makesĪny difference. Look in Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/Startup/Excel just to be What happens - exactly - if you launch Excel directly?ĭo you have anything in Excel set to automatically open on launch? Take a Isn't common on the Mac so we'll have to diagnose a bit further :-)ĭoes Excel Launch at all when you attempt to create a chart? Not sure what's causing Excel to give the impression that it's "busy" - this Even though the behavior is similar the fix won't be the same.

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Oh, here I meant only that when I tried to google the error message, I found out that some other people encounted the same problem, f.ex., here: īut they were not suggested any helpful answers there. What suggestion did you find that wasn't a "reasonable solution"?: Then I performed the disk repair permissions, as you suggested: Disk Utility (in the Applications/Utilities folder) -Repair Disk Permissions and shut down the Mac for a few minutes. Thank you! Still, it didn�t change anything about the inserting a chart: First message � To insert a chart, you must first close any open dialog boxes or cancel editing mode in Microsoft Office Excel�, second message, coming immediately after the first, � Some chart types cannot be combined with other chart types. Yes, you were absolutely right about the the inactive Charts & SmartArt: I simply had to change the format to docx, and the mentioned icons became active.
