Hi Julie,

Oops, I should have included that in the first post with the cut and paste.
Been there, tried that. The only thing I am not sure of is if any file that
is created without copy/cut and paste, one where you hand enter everything,
has this problem, because I don't think we have any files like that. We have
resorted to creating the file and NEVER closing it until we mail merge. But
after that point, or if we need to reboot, all bets are off. Not a good way
to work.

"JulieD" wrote:

Hi Helen

what about copying the data (select cells & choose copy not move or copy
sheet) to a new file and saving that? because this is seriously unusual
behaviour.

Cheers
JulieD



"Helen N." wrote in message
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Nope, see answer above.

"CLR" wrote:

Sounds like you may have multiple occurances of the same file and getting
the "wrong" one opened..............just try FILE SAVEAS, and re-naming
the file and see if the problem still occurs with the new name.

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3


"Helen N." <Helen wrote in message
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I have several excel .xls files where the data changes sometimes after
closing the file. Upon reopening it, cells are sometimes blank,
sometimes
different data, all data still relevant to the row header (like a state
may
change from VA to NY or just be blank, a zip code may change but still
be
a
zip code). The data seems to be whatever may have been originally on
the
spreadsheet (if we never had a NC state, a new one is not created) but
maybe
the cells have shifted up or down, but there is no pattern. Some files
were
created in Excel 97, some in Excel 2003. Most all from cutting and
pasting
from other spreadsheets that have numerous other originations due to
the
sharing of addresses for mailings, so I don't know the version of the
other
Excel programs. All also have some hand entering and tweeking. I am
running
anti-virus updated software and all appears clear. There appears to be
no
macros and there is no prompting to enable or disable macros. I have
tried
saving a spreadsheet as a .txt with tab delimited and reopening it in
Excel
and then saving as .xls but the problem follows it. It happens on
another
computer running Excel XP using the same file. The changes can be saved
fine,
but once closed and reopened, it is only guaranteed that there will be
incorrect data somewhere. What to do?