Having a problem..plzz help

Hi.........Everyone

My friend send me a game in excel ... it was not opening , i thought its need a flash player to open so i installed ,but unfortunately it not opening . I have Vista installed and Microsoft Office 2003 but the same mail i forwarded to one of my my friend and their its working fine he too has vista and office 2003 installed

..So what is the problem in my system?

My friend send me a game in excel ... it was not opening , i thought its need a flash player to open so i installed

How can a game be in Excel ?? unless its some thing reading game or such :lol
: and why would an excel file need flash ??

the same mail i forwarded to one of my my friend and their its working fine he too has vista and office 2003 installed..So what is the problem in my system?

may be they have some update which your system is missing which is required to run the game, like SP3 or Office Compatibility Pack SP1 or such !!!

yes chota cheeta the game is in excel ...its called apple shooter ....i wil send u a mail if u like me to send ...can i have ur mail id

Choto Cheeta said:
How can a game be in Excel ?? unless its some thing reading game or such :lol
: and why would an excel file need flash ??

There are several games in Excel and a few in Word too. You can Google to find out more and update your knowledge, instead of laughing and mocking at someone who has come here to ask for help!

What error occures when you try to run the game?

Iam not getting any error .....just its not loading or starting the game

Right click game.exe
select the properties> compatibility tab> check "Run this program as admin"
now try run.
also can try to campatibility mode of xp(sp2)

Let me know the ver of office suite u r using.

@Choto Cheeta
Go to www.gamesexcel.com for info

Office 2003 am using.....what is office suite

smile said:
Office 2003 am using.....what is office suite

really dont no?
Collection of office softwares. such as word, excel, access, powerpoint, publisher etc called office suite.
try what i was say?

ok

tell me 1 thing...when u open the game's excel file then MS Office pop-up a screen with 'enable/disable macro' option???

Lemme know if you have SWF player installed in your system or drag the game in Inter Explorer.

It sud work fine now.

I think game requires flash player , but i have already installed flash player

.

flw dis-
open that excel > tools > macro > security > set the security level to 'medium' > save the changes

reopen the excel file...'enable the macro' option...bingo!!

@quad master : am not getting any pop up to enable macro when i open the excel

smile said:
@quad master : am not getting any pop up to enable macro when i open the excel

hmm...u sud get dat kinda pop-up

btw if the file come in zip then u hav to extract it...then flw above steps
actually i have dat game...i faced da same problem...nd i sort it by this process
if evrything fails...dwnld again nd try afresh...

Last guess:
seems you are trying to run game directly from zip folder.
first extract into a folder, then run it.

Not a zip folder .... i got a mail and i saved it and its an excel file.

What is extension?

.xls

now, you know why this game not run?
your friend send you .xls file without packing it in zip.
it is not an ordinary excel file.
it contains intractive contents.
Sending directly these types of file result in loss of some important information.
say to friend , send it in zip.

Amir.php said:
Sending directly these types of file result in loss of some important information.

epic analysis :!:

lolz

T159 said:
epic analysis lolz

What your means?
say clear you lol.

Amir.php said:
What your means?
say clear you lol.

posted by original poster:
"...but the same mail i forwarded to one of my my friend and their its working fine..."

PS: people there is a difference b/w their and there, sense and sence (doesn't make any sense though)...lolz

ok, i am going.
it is your time to solve it.
by.

^^don't go
solve his problem, i appreciate your effort

Hm........ i dont think he needs to send me that file in a zip folder because same file or mail can be opened and the game is playing fine in other systems

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If its a game base don Macros then you need to change the macro Security to a lower level. but i see that was already suggested. You can check again by setting ti to low for this file and try again.

Also try installing a shockwave player. you might want to get the URL for the flash site he got the Flash game from just in case so you can access it.

thanks a lot for advice.....will surely try and let u know

.. but tel me how to change Macros security

smile said:
but tel me how to change Macros security

pardon me...but u r not following the thread

...if u go through the posts then u'll get the ans...

it shud run in office2003 may be your app (excel 2003) has some problem...

the file which u have may contain macros,activeX Controls,xml expansion pack,or web
components

try installing ofice 2003 again & see ;-)