The ownership stuff (tools|options|user information in Word 2002) makes much
more sense. And I played with that info and my changes showed up in my ~ file.


RWN wrote:

Dave;
Thank you.

I never save/open to/from floppies. Learned it the hard way with Word and always use the
HD.
I'm *reasonably* conversant with Word's use of temp files but never thought about XL until
an acquaintance was having problems with a diskette and mentioned that he'd been using
Excel directly with the floppy.
Anyway, it appears as though the problem was related to that as other diskettes work ok
and saving/copying to/from the HD and using it from there are ok.

BTW I believe the "ownership file" in Word takes its info from the
"Tools-Options-General Information" box and is the name presented in a "File is being
used by" message.

Again, thanks for the info.
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Regards;
Rob
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Dave Peterson