Editing old Excel with new Excel tables in drawings

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All,We switched to Office 2007 months (1 year?) ago. We know there are issues with simply mapping in embedded Excel files into drawings. We got around this by importing as real Pro/E table. I don't recall all the details.Now...we are opening older Pro/E drawings that we did insert the old Excel data into. We are finding that Excel 2007 is terminating itself. Therefore we can not edit the embedded info.It would make sense that if we had trouble bring them in would now give us trouble editing the old. I suppose.Anyone come across this yet? Have a fix?We are on wf 4.0, M110 running on Vista 64 bit machines (if you need more detail I can provide).Thanks!WayneThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

rrich · Answer

Ok I thought this was new to Creo so I never mentioned it, but today I saw it act differently for a moment. In the old days of WF4 I could pull up a drawing and double click on a table block in the format or BOM or rev block and it would begin editing. That was fine and what I was use to it, I liked it. Since the change to Creo it had seemed to be different. We have been getting this pop up.
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It was all acceptable as I thought this was somehow new functionality or lack thereof but it was consistent as every new drawing had this. We were sucking it up and dealing with it. Then today I pulled up an old drawing and duplicated it to make a new part number. I pull up this newly created duplicate and clicked in the table to change dates and other stuff and low an behold I did not get this pop up. I thought our admin team had put through an update that cured this, but I was mistaken. It turns out after I saved the drawing and then opened it later I got the pop ups back. What gives, does anyone else have this? Is there some setting to get rid of it? I do not really want to have to use the Alt key every time I wish to change something in a table. I believe it does it for other things too, like changing the scale on a detail view and maybe even selecting and moving a view and or cross hatch changes.

Why can't we all just get along????

Ron

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