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Excel keeps copying deleted files
How do I prevent Excel making copies of files I delete? When I try to delete
the copied files, further copies are made! Any advice appreciated. -- Rosie |
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Excel keeps copying deleted files
Pls detail your method of deletion.
-- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Rosie" wrote in message ... How do I prevent Excel making copies of files I delete? When I try to delete the copied files, further copies are made! Any advice appreciated. -- Rosie |
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Excel keeps copying deleted files
Very strange behaviour.
How are you deleting the files? Via Windows Explorer? VBA via Excel? Please post some more details. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 02:15:01 -0700, Rosie wrote: How do I prevent Excel making copies of files I delete? When I try to delete the copied files, further copies are made! Any advice appreciated. |
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Excel keeps copying deleted files
When I click on "open" to search for a particular file, I see all these
copies of the deleted files. -- Rosie "Don Guillett" wrote: Pls detail your method of deletion. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Rosie" wrote in message ... How do I prevent Excel making copies of files I delete? When I try to delete the copied files, further copies are made! Any advice appreciated. -- Rosie |
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Excel keeps copying deleted files
I delete them while in Excel - by clicking "open" and then when I see an
unwanted file, clicking "delete"... -- Rosie "Gord Dibben" wrote: Very strange behaviour. How are you deleting the files? Via Windows Explorer? VBA via Excel? Please post some more details. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 02:15:01 -0700, Rosie wrote: How do I prevent Excel making copies of files I delete? When I try to delete the copied files, further copies are made! Any advice appreciated. |
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Excel keeps copying deleted files
?B?Um9zaWU=?= wrote
I delete them while in Excel - by clicking "open" and then when I see an unwanted file, clicking "delete"... Are the 'deleted' files preceded by the words "Copy of"? What happens if you highlight them and press the Delete key on your keyboard? Do you see the word 'Delete' pop up in a little yellow box when you hold your mouse pointer over the Delete button for a couple of seconds? -- David |
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Excel keeps copying deleted files
Yes, the files are preceded by "copy of".
Usually I delete by right clicking on the mouse and choosing the delete option. When I delete using the keyboard as you describe, I get the message "are you sure you want to delete (filename)?" I don't quite understand what you mean by holding "the mouse pointer over the delete button". Anyway, I don't see any little yellow box popping up... -- Rosie "David" wrote: ?B?Um9zaWU=?= wrote I delete them while in Excel - by clicking "open" and then when I see an unwanted file, clicking "delete"... Are the 'deleted' files preceded by the words "Copy of"? What happens if you highlight them and press the Delete key on your keyboard? Do you see the word 'Delete' pop up in a little yellow box when you hold your mouse pointer over the Delete button for a couple of seconds? -- David |
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Excel keeps copying deleted files
Dear all
Problem solved! It turns out that the problem arose when I was multiple selecting files to delete by holding the Ctrl or Shift key while left clicking to select the files. The copies are created when you fail to completely release the mouse button before you move the pointer to another file. If a group of selected files is dragged...even the slightest bit...the next mouse click will produce copies of all the previously highlighted files. Thought you would be interested. It also applies to non-Excel applictaions - I was getting the same problem in Jasc. Thank you for trying to help. Rosie -- Rosie "Rosie" wrote: How do I prevent Excel making copies of files I delete? When I try to delete the copied files, further copies are made! Any advice appreciated. -- Rosie |
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