Dave ,
This is a further message from my friend.
Can you make sense of it.
I should say that I found he stores all his data on the same partition as
his programmes in other words his Excel data is shown as a sub set of Excel.
I told him it would be better if his data was stored as a group in a
different partition.
Here is the message
Blair

Thanks for latest e-mail. Will look for information about an 'Application'
window and a 'Worksheet' window but think I'll have to live with the matter
The two-window problem really is a nuisance rather than a problem.

The main problem is that I cannot consistently open my Excel files by
double-clicking the Folder icons but very often have to resort to opening
them by the 'Internet Explorer' option from the rt/click menu.. This is not
satisfactory because the window does not show the 'Status' bar at the
bottom - which I use quite a bit with quick calculations and was of course
part of my initial window set-up..

Fortunately, however, I have found that if I close the opened I/T window I
can re-instate the file window either by now double-clicking its icon in its
opened Folder or by choosing the 'Microsoft Excel" option this time from the
rt/click menu - and the file window is brought up complete with 'Status
bar.

Not satisfactory but am pleased to accept the method as a workable one.

Bob






"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
If your friend is seeing two x's in the top right corner, maybe one is for
the
application window and one is for the worksheet window.

It sounds like he is closing the worksheet window. Maybe just maximizing
that
window would look more familiar to him.

Blair wrote:

I have now had this reply from my friend

"Due to the help from Dave Paterson I have achieved part success where
he
pointed out that two X's will appear in the top-right corner - one below
the
normal one - and I am able to delete the second one as he suggested. The
screen then goes blank but I can recall the file from the bottom
toolbar. I
don't know what it really does as the same thing still happens every
time I
open My Documents but it at least gets rid of the mystery 'other' file
when
the file is opened.

I tried Dave Paterson's main suggestion to help solve the problem but
when I
followed his directions I failed to complete the final part of his coded
instruction where a 'regserver' entry was required and I tried all sorts
of
answers for that but without success."

Could you solve what his problem is ? I think he may mean regressive?
Blair

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
Maybe this from Debra Dalgleish's site will help:
http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#AlreadyOpen

Blair wrote:

A friend has a problem. When he wants to open a file in Excel he
finds
the
file already open with a message which says the file cannot be
opened as
it
is already open.
I have tried to simulate this condition on my own PC but failed to
do
so.
Can anyone explain what is happening and how to stop it?
Blair

--

Dave Peterson

--

Dave Peterson