I was just able to get a Windows XP VM created and running on my MacBook Pro. I now have a problem with Excel operating in my Mac OS. When I open Excel I get the spinning beach ball whenever i click on anything in Excel and I can't work on the files. I have to Force Quit to get out. I've looked through the forum but haven't found this topic.
. That will definately be a problem with Excel. The reason you didn't find anything with search, is because it runs perfectly for everyone else. Re-installing Excel or office, should make it better. .
This is more likely a Rosetta issue than a Parallels issue. MS Office apps aren't universal binaries and have troubles occasionally. When a Rosetta app hangs, go to a terminal (in OS X) and enter: sudo killall translated And then your password.
At the risk of stating the obvious, how much memory do you have on your Mac Pro? The reason I ask is that I started out with 512MB on my iMAC and when I had iphoto, itunes, quicken, and Word all going at the same time, sometimes an application would just hang (this was before I installed Parallels). Or I could click on it in the dock and it would never load. When I put in 2GB of memory, this problem disappeared.
