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personal.xls locked for editing
I've recently created macros in Excel that are stored in personal.xls. It
might be because it never happened that I opened two instances of Excel since I've created these macros (although I doubt it), but every time I open two or more instances of Excel, I get the message that the personal.xls file is locked for editing by myself. Is there a way to go around this or do I have to live with it, considering that I need the macros to be available in all Excel files I open? Thanks. |
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personal.xls locked for editing
If you mark the file Readonly (using windows explorer), then you won't get the
message. But you won't be able to change the file in that state, either. Gaetan wrote: I've recently created macros in Excel that are stored in personal.xls. It might be because it never happened that I opened two instances of Excel since I've created these macros (although I doubt it), but every time I open two or more instances of Excel, I get the message that the personal.xls file is locked for editing by myself. Is there a way to go around this or do I have to live with it, considering that I need the macros to be available in all Excel files I open? Thanks. -- Dave Peterson |
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One way or the other, this is a problem.
"Dave Peterson" wrote: If you mark the file Readonly (using windows explorer), then you won't get the message. But you won't be able to change the file in that state, either. Gaetan wrote: I've recently created macros in Excel that are stored in personal.xls. It might be because it never happened that I opened two instances of Excel since I've created these macros (although I doubt it), but every time I open two or more instances of Excel, I get the message that the personal.xls file is locked for editing by myself. Is there a way to go around this or do I have to live with it, considering that I need the macros to be available in all Excel files I open? Thanks. -- Dave Peterson |
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Only a problem if you have more than one instance of Excel running. What is the purpose for that? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:40:00 -0800, Gaetan wrote: One way or the other, this is a problem. "Dave Peterson" wrote: If you mark the file Readonly (using windows explorer), then you won't get the message. But you won't be able to change the file in that state, either. Gaetan wrote: I've recently created macros in Excel that are stored in personal.xls. It might be because it never happened that I opened two instances of Excel since I've created these macros (although I doubt it), but every time I open two or more instances of Excel, I get the message that the personal.xls file is locked for editing by myself. Is there a way to go around this or do I have to live with it, considering that I need the macros to be available in all Excel files I open? Thanks. -- Dave Peterson |
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personal.xls locked for editing
Personally, I don't directly edit my macros in my personal.xl* file. I
experiment in another workbook. When I'm happy, I'll put the new/updated macro into my personal.xl* file. Since I don't do this very often, I can make sure that the file is not marked readonly and I only have one instance of excel open. Gaetan wrote: One way or the other, this is a problem. "Dave Peterson" wrote: If you mark the file Readonly (using windows explorer), then you won't get the message. But you won't be able to change the file in that state, either. Gaetan wrote: I've recently created macros in Excel that are stored in personal.xls. It might be because it never happened that I opened two instances of Excel since I've created these macros (although I doubt it), but every time I open two or more instances of Excel, I get the message that the personal.xls file is locked for editing by myself. Is there a way to go around this or do I have to live with it, considering that I need the macros to be available in all Excel files I open? Thanks. -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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