It seems that Excel 2007 doesn't write the owning user's name in the
workbook, unlike earlier versions, so it's not available.

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Jim
"Ana" wrote in message
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|I have a workbook that is used by multiple users. When one user has the
| sheet locked and someone else tries to open it they are only seeing that
the
| sheet is locked by "another user". I have checked the registry settings
under
| HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common \UserInfo and within
Excel
| and Word Options and the user information is there and correct.
|
| Is there anyway to get the User Information to show so that users know who
| has the sheet open for editing?