Mickey Flint
First Post
Errors messages and printing layout
Hey yo! As I have commented on over the years now, this is the best tool out there. I have required my players to use it when I dm.
That being said, I have been having a really big problem. I had a hard drive crash and have a new laptop and need to rebuild all my characters. I am running Excel 2007 (same as before) but from the first download (and every successive download) of v2.27 i get the following error message at file opening:
Excel found unreadable content in 'ForgedAnvil D&D 5E Character Generator v2.27'. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook? If you trust the source of this workbook then click yes
I click yes and go about my business and i get a notification that it has made the following repairs
Removed Part: /xl/comments1.xml part with XML error. (Comments) Load error. Line 2, column 453.
Removed Part: /xl/comments2.xml part with XML error. (Comments) Load error. Line 2, column 393.
Now, i get this EVERY time i have downloaded and opened a fresh copy. It works, as such but there are errors all over the sheet now. All of the subclass feature pull downs for things like expertise in rogues or schools for wizards always stay grey, though you can select them, but it doesn't give that nice reminder of the color change. Worst of all is that the printing is COMPLETELY skewed. The values overlap the edges of boxes (like initiative, proficiency, and ac) and the text descriptions (that are already very fine print) do the same for things like resistances. This makes them basically unreadable.
Probably the biggest issue with the printing is in the Race,Background,Class & Feats section. There are no line breaks at all now. All the sentences and sections all run together with zero pagination.
I have tried printing to PDF as well but that doesn't help. I am at this point out of ideas and would love some suggestions to how to fix this. I have grown to depend on this MARVELOUS tool. There are several beer in it for you guys if you can help me out haha. Thanks all!
Hey yo! As I have commented on over the years now, this is the best tool out there. I have required my players to use it when I dm.
That being said, I have been having a really big problem. I had a hard drive crash and have a new laptop and need to rebuild all my characters. I am running Excel 2007 (same as before) but from the first download (and every successive download) of v2.27 i get the following error message at file opening:
Excel found unreadable content in 'ForgedAnvil D&D 5E Character Generator v2.27'. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook? If you trust the source of this workbook then click yes
I click yes and go about my business and i get a notification that it has made the following repairs
Removed Part: /xl/comments1.xml part with XML error. (Comments) Load error. Line 2, column 453.
Removed Part: /xl/comments2.xml part with XML error. (Comments) Load error. Line 2, column 393.
Now, i get this EVERY time i have downloaded and opened a fresh copy. It works, as such but there are errors all over the sheet now. All of the subclass feature pull downs for things like expertise in rogues or schools for wizards always stay grey, though you can select them, but it doesn't give that nice reminder of the color change. Worst of all is that the printing is COMPLETELY skewed. The values overlap the edges of boxes (like initiative, proficiency, and ac) and the text descriptions (that are already very fine print) do the same for things like resistances. This makes them basically unreadable.
Probably the biggest issue with the printing is in the Race,Background,Class & Feats section. There are no line breaks at all now. All the sentences and sections all run together with zero pagination.
I have tried printing to PDF as well but that doesn't help. I am at this point out of ideas and would love some suggestions to how to fix this. I have grown to depend on this MARVELOUS tool. There are several beer in it for you guys if you can help me out haha. Thanks all!
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