The file is a template, so the behavior you're seeing is by design.

Open the file with File/Open instead.

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Pat wrote:

Whe I open a file from a shortcut on the desktop, it opens a copy of the file
with a 1 after the original file name. Is there something I am missing in the
set up? Just as an aside, we are using Execl 2000. All I want to do is open
the original.