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XL98: Details Not Displayed in New Dialog Box

Article ID: 185117

Article Last Modified on 9/11/2002

Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh

This article was previously published under Q185117

SYMPTOMS

When you click By Details in the View dropdown in the New dialog box, the Size, Kind, and Last Modified columns are blank.

CAUSE

This problem will occur if the following conditions are true:

You click By Details in the View dropdown in the New dialog box. -and-
You have not activated a tab in the New dialog box other than the General tab in this session of Microsoft Excel.

WORKAROUND

If more than one tab is displayed in the New dialog box, you can follow these steps to work around the problem:

Activate a different tab in the New dialog box.
Activate the General tab in the New dialog box.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition.

MORE INFORMATION

REFERENCES

For more information about using templates with Microsoft Excel, click Contents And Index on the Help menu (or on the Balloon Help menu if you are using a version of the Macintosh operating system earlier than 8.0), click the Index button in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text

templates, folders

and then click Show Topics. Select the "Guidelines for storing templates" topic, and click Go To. If you are unable to find the information you need, ask the Office Assistant.

Additional query words: XL98

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