wcli wrote:
(1) 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Activity monitor when I shut everything else down was showing the following free - 182.45MB; wired - 168.3MB; Active - 438.9MB; Inactive - 231.01MB: Used 840.02MB. Still didn't open up when I only had this safari window, numbers, activity monitor and finder window open. Will try downloading open office or libre office as you recommend.
(2) Will definitely reconsider upgrading or continuing with iworks if I cannot open the spreadsheets, I do not want numerous programs on my computer for the one time it doesn't open it. I prefer programs/apps that will deal with all the file types that are similar.
(1) I have no experience with Numbers on a 1 Gbytes machine.
On my 4 Gbytes one I have quite always 3 Gbytes used.
But it's not the Inactive memory which is meaningful, it's the Available one : the one displayed in green.
(2) Numbers '08 is a frozen app which had problems with its importers. As far as I know, these ones are solved in Numbers '09.
If you wish to know the behavior of the '09 version,
download the iWork '09 trial
Install it
Ask Software Update to apply the available updaters then try to import your Excel file.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 24 juin 2011 15:29:35
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.7
Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community
To be the AW6 successor, iWork MUST integrate a TRUE DB, not a list organizer !