Excel VBA on downloaded spreadsheets

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From: Colin Jex (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 04:38:31 -0800

I have some problems about running Excel macros on
spreadsheets downloaded from the internet. I would be very
grateful if you could give me some advice. This link
should give you an idea of what I am doing: -

http://www.lums3.lancs.ac.uk/dl/Excel/EWMA%20Moving%
20Update.xls

The problem I have is that this does not behave
consistently when run from other PCs than my own - e.g
sometimes the spinner does not work, though usually it
does!
There are similar problems on other spreadsheets and even
Powerpoint presentations don't always behave identically.

I don't really now how Windows is handling this situation -
 maybe that would shed some light on the origin of the
problem and how to fix it.

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