HELP! Mystery images in excel

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lisax

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I have downloaded a ton of excel pages from an ftp site. When I open them on a pc they are fine, but as soon as I open them on my mac and print a whole load of duplicated images appear, and I am sitting here pressing delete continously to try and get rid of them.

I can't find a quicker way of deleting them and don't understand where they've come from!!

Please can anyone help?!!

distressed

lisa
 
Lisa,

You need to better explain your problem. What do you mean by "duplicated images"? Do these images appear when you open the files or when you print them? Do they appear on the PC or only on the Mac? How many different images are there? What do they represent when displayed properly. If you know, what is their format?

Also, which version of Excel do you have on your PC? Which version do you have on your Mac?

As a general proposition, you should not delete things until you know what you are deleting.
 
Okay, It is a catalogue that contains image of clothing with retail details. When I open the files in Excel on a mac you cannot see any extra images and they don't appear when you print from a pc.

When I open the same files on my mac, there are approx 1200 duplicates of the clothing images on each page. The best way to describe it is to say they are on layers so say there is a picture of a t-shirt which is supposed to be there, behind it there are 300 pictures of a different t-shirt which shouldn't be there.

The only way to delete them is to select each one and press delete - which is taking hours and is incredibly mind numbing.

I don't know the format I'm afraid. I'll try to find out the versions.

Thanks

Lisa
 
Lisa,

If there are pictures of 300 different t-shirts, then the vendor placed them in the file. They are supposed to be there. It may be that only one of the 300 is supposed to be displayed at any one time. I am guessing that the shirt to be displayed is selected by a Visual BASIC for Applications (VBA) script. The most recent released version of Excel on any platform is Excel 2004. Your catalog file is probably in format that is newer than Excel v.X. Unless the script is Windows-only, then Excel 2004 should handle it.
 
'I have downloaded a ton of excel pages ...' - files weight '0' grams.

'... from an ftp site.' - and that FTP site's url is? (if publicly available).
 
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