Thank you, I appreciate your response, you are incredibly considerate.

"Lance" wrote:

I've been working with a large multi-sheet (25) worksheet and doing "save-as"
to save my work. No when I open the file two worksheets open simultaneously
with the same file name and the designation ":1" and ":2" after them. How do
I get this file so that it only opens one view of the file and gets rid of
the ":1" and ":2".
Any help is appreciated. I