Article ID: 183185
Article Last Modified on 9/11/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q183185
SYMPTOMS
When you open a file that contains an embedded movie, the movie is
converted to a picture.
CAUSE
When you save a file that contains a movie in an earlier version file
format, the movie is converted to a picture without warning. For example,
if you save a file that contains a movie in the Microsoft Excel 5.0/95
Workbook file format, the movie is converted to a picture.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Excel 98
Macintosh Edition.
REFERENCES
For more information about features that may be lost when you save to an
earlier version file format, click the Office Assistant, type
saving files
to an earlier format, click Search, and then click to view "Formatting and
features not transferred in file conversions."
NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the
Standard toolbar. If Microsoft Help is not installed on your computer,
please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
179216 OFF98: How to Use the Microsoft Office Installer Program
Additional query words: XL98 downrev
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