Re: Version 6 won't import Excel (Mac)
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- Subject: [mg81611] Re: Version 6 won't import Excel (Mac)
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:29:07 -0400 (EDT)
On 9/28/07 at 2:10 AM, murray at math.umass.edu (Murray Eisenberg) wrote: >A colleague who uses a Mac with MacOS 10.4.10 has the following >Mathematica 6 problem: He cannot get Import to work with either an >.xls file or a .csv file created from an Excel spreadsheet. >Instead, the resulting Output cell just contains a button that says >"Import" followed by the arguments used to call Import in square >brackets. Clicking the button just opens the Documentation Center >window to the page for "ref/Import" which describes how to use the >function. >Has anyone else experienced this on Macs? Does Mathematica 6 >possibly use Java, and could there be some configuration problem >involving that? I've had no difficulty importing data from Excel files or exporting data to Excel files using my Mac and version 6.0 of Mathematica. In fact, I do this quite often since most of my colleagues use Excel on a PC rather than Mathematica on a Mac as I do. The one thing I do that might make a difference is I use the third argument to Export/Import rather than having Mathematica infer the format from the filename. -- To reply via email subtract one hundred and four