Hello, Dorothy:
I'm glad to hear that's what's going on, because it's a problem that can be fixed.
The idea here is that Parallels (and I assume you meant Parallels, although you said "Partitions") gives you the flexibility to open files in either a Mac program or a Windows program. It tries to be smart about its default program choices, but when you have a program like Excel installed twice--once for the Mac and once for Windows--it can make the wrong choice for you and cause the problem you're seeing with NodeXL. You have to educate it about which program you really want it to open.
I don't have a Mac and so I can't step you through this, but I did find instructions here:
http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v5/docs/en/Parallels_Desktop_Users_Guide/22962.htm
You may not have the exact version of Parallels they talk about there, but I suspect the procedure will be similar for whatever version you do have.
You want to change the file associations for the following file types so that they open in the Excel Windows application and not the Excel Mac application:
.xltx
.xlsx
Once you do this, selecting "NodeXL Excel Template" from the Windows Start menu should open a NodeXL workbook in your Windows version of Excel, and you should see a graph pane (called "Document Actions") on the right side of the screen, along with a tab named "NodeXL" in the Excel ribbon.
-- Tony
I'm glad to hear that's what's going on, because it's a problem that can be fixed.
The idea here is that Parallels (and I assume you meant Parallels, although you said "Partitions") gives you the flexibility to open files in either a Mac program or a Windows program. It tries to be smart about its default program choices, but when you have a program like Excel installed twice--once for the Mac and once for Windows--it can make the wrong choice for you and cause the problem you're seeing with NodeXL. You have to educate it about which program you really want it to open.
I don't have a Mac and so I can't step you through this, but I did find instructions here:
http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v5/docs/en/Parallels_Desktop_Users_Guide/22962.htm
You may not have the exact version of Parallels they talk about there, but I suspect the procedure will be similar for whatever version you do have.
You want to change the file associations for the following file types so that they open in the Excel Windows application and not the Excel Mac application:
.xltx
.xlsx
Once you do this, selecting "NodeXL Excel Template" from the Windows Start menu should open a NodeXL workbook in your Windows version of Excel, and you should see a graph pane (called "Document Actions") on the right side of the screen, along with a tab named "NodeXL" in the Excel ribbon.
-- Tony