Basically excel is loaded on my laptop. The files are local to me (on my hard
drive)and only i have the option to open them.

i have recently copied the files from one laptop to another using a network
connection as my old laptop went wrong in a big way.

"stevedmobile" wrote:

Why is Excel stating that i have two files open with the same filename when i
clearly have not.

It reports that a document with the same name is already open