95% of these buttons are not showing as "active"; restarted Excel; rebooted
the machine (XP, Excel 2003), still not working. Can't save, can't work on
any worksheets. They are not protected.

Is this a New workbook or one you've Opened?

--
Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel


"SuzieQ12345" wrote in message
...
95% of these buttons are not showing as "active"; restarted Excel;
rebooted
the machine (XP, Excel 2003), still not working. Can't save, can't work
on
any worksheets. They are not protected.

No, these are existing worksheets - but I tried it on new ones as well, same
problem. A little scary - can't use Excel w/o all of these buttons.

"Rob van Gelder" wrote:

Is this a New workbook or one you've Opened?

--
Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel


"SuzieQ12345" wrote in message
...
95% of these buttons are not showing as "active"; restarted Excel;
rebooted
the machine (XP, Excel 2003), still not working. Can't save, can't work
on
any worksheets. They are not protected.

Hi

is it possible that your copy of excel has not been activated (in some
countries activation was introduced in version 2000 in others ver 2002)

Cheers
JulieD

"SuzieQ12345" wrote in message
...
No, these are existing worksheets - but I tried it on new ones as well,
same
problem. A little scary - can't use Excel w/o all of these buttons.

"Rob van Gelder" wrote:

Is this a New workbook or one you've Opened?

--
Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel


"SuzieQ12345" wrote in message
...
95% of these buttons are not showing as "active"; restarted Excel;
rebooted
the machine (XP, Excel 2003), still not working. Can't save, can't
work
on
any worksheets. They are not protected.

How do I activate? It asks me each time I log on if I want to activate (not
sure if that's the exact wording) but if I go out to the internet, it says
I've tried to do it too many times (not sure if that's the exact language of
the error message - it's not up on the machine now).

"JulieD" wrote:

Hi

is it possible that your copy of excel has not been activated (in some
countries activation was introduced in version 2000 in others ver 2002)

Cheers
JulieD

"SuzieQ12345" wrote in message
...
No, these are existing worksheets - but I tried it on new ones as well,
same
problem. A little scary - can't use Excel w/o all of these buttons.

"Rob van Gelder" wrote:

Is this a New workbook or one you've Opened?

--
Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel


"SuzieQ12345" wrote in message
...
95% of these buttons are not showing as "active"; restarted Excel;
rebooted
the machine (XP, Excel 2003), still not working. Can't save, can't
work
on
any worksheets. They are not protected.

Hi

it's been a LONG time since i activated something, but i think there's an
activate via phone option rather than via the internet - maybe give that a
go?

Cheers
julieD

"SuzieQ12345" wrote in message
...
How do I activate? It asks me each time I log on if I want to activate
(not
sure if that's the exact wording) but if I go out to the internet, it says
I've tried to do it too many times (not sure if that's the exact language
of
the error message - it's not up on the machine now).

"JulieD" wrote:

Hi

is it possible that your copy of excel has not been activated (in some
countries activation was introduced in version 2000 in others ver 2002)

Cheers
JulieD

"SuzieQ12345" wrote in message
...
No, these are existing worksheets - but I tried it on new ones as well,
same
problem. A little scary - can't use Excel w/o all of these buttons.

"Rob van Gelder" wrote:

Is this a New workbook or one you've Opened?

--
Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel


"SuzieQ12345" wrote in message
...
95% of these buttons are not showing as "active"; restarted Excel;
rebooted
the machine (XP, Excel 2003), still not working. Can't save, can't
work
on
any worksheets. They are not protected.