Combo Boxes turn to Graphics when Opening Original Windows..

External Since: Jun 29, 2004 Posts: 1

This has been a problem for a while and I'm hoping someone (MS=20
Development team) will have a fix by now.=20

I'm opening a file created in Windows version of Excel and all the combo =

boxes are converting to graphics. I'm running Office X. Is there a fix =
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this yet?

How about in the new version of Excel in Office 2004?

External Since: Mar 07, 2004 Posts: 3828

In article <2315401c45e0d$95193720$a401280a@phx.gbl>,
"Rod" <anonymous RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> This has been a problem for a while and I'm hoping someone (MS
> Development team) will have a fix by now.
>
> I'm opening a file created in Windows version of Excel and all the combo
> boxes are converting to graphics. I'm running Office X. Is there a fix for
> this yet?
>
> How about in the new version of Excel in Office 2004?

There's no fix because the comboboxes are ActiveX controls, which
currently at least, are a Windows-only technology.

Workbooks designed to be cross-platform should use the comboboxes from
the Forms toolbar instead.