restarting didn't help.

"Fredrik Wahlgren" wrote:


"Mindy" wrote in message
...
If I double click on the file, it opens Excel but still says cannot access
file


If you follow Don's suggestion to first open Excel from the start menu and
then use File|Open, do you still get the same problem? I guess the program
could be locked by some other program or previous instance of Excel. Have
you tried to restart your PC?

/Fredrik