The excel doesn't show chinese characters I download an excel file which contains chinese characters, but the excel on my macbookpro/osx/snow leopard is not able to show these chinese characters.

However if I copy a chinese character from somewhere and paste it into a cell, it is able to show the chinese character.

What might be going wrong?
We recently had a similar issue with all Asian fonts in Excel for OSX (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean).  The solution that worked for us was to change the font to "Arial Unicode MS".  You can do it for just the cells in question or the entire sheet.

Answer originally found from the question chain here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3456247?start=0&amp;tstart=0