locked for editing in Excel
Hello, Wondering if anyone can help. I have a laptop and i created a new
Excel Spreadsheet, done some bits and bobs in it and saved (all fine and dandy) but now when i go back into it it is saying "locked for editing" Which i would understand if i was working with a spreadsheet that other people could access and it might be open but its on my own personal laptop and i have just created it! Any ideas? |
locked for editing in Excel
Try this fix.
Excel stores in Windows\Temp(win98) folder a copy(s) of any file that is open. Sometimes this *.tmp file is not deleted from the Temp folder when you close out Excel(maybe a crash of Excel?) or the file, so Excel thinks it is still open and in use. You can try a re-boot and see if that clears it up. If not, after a re-boot, clear out your Windows\Temp folder. If using WinXP your Temp folder would be under user....... Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Temp If on a network, re-booting the server may be the only solution. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:27:02 -0700, raginbull69 wrote: Hello, Wondering if anyone can help. I have a laptop and i created a new Excel Spreadsheet, done some bits and bobs in it and saved (all fine and dandy) but now when i go back into it it is saying "locked for editing" Which i would understand if i was working with a spreadsheet that other people could access and it might be open but its on my own personal laptop and i have just created it! Any ideas? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP |
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