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Excel won't let me save, and then the file is gone?!
I am running Office98 on a 1 year old Emachines and WXP home.
About 6 months ago when I tried to save a spreadsheet it would say the spreadsheet can't be saved, but the system was saving it to a temporary file with some bizarre name. It told me to open the temporary file and then save it. Well, I never did find the temporary files, but had to recreate the spreadsheets. Now I find I can copy the sheet to the clipboard, close the existing file, create a new spread sheet and paste the clipboard. The old file is then simply gone, so I can save the new file to the old name. Any idea what is going on here? It is really obnoxious. It was okay until 6 months ago, and I am still running Excel98 on another WXP machine without problem. No other programs seem to be affected, or I would think it is a system/hardware problem. Thanks. |
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Problem occures maybe 20% of the time.
Only about 1 out of 5 saves get the error message. I should have mentioned
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Problem occures maybe 20% of the time.
Are the files you are opening on removable media (floppy, CD)? If so, don't
do that. Saving Excel files to removable media causes problems (iirc, Excel doesn't simply replace the old file, it creates a new file, deletes the old & renames the first so you need to have twice the filesize available and if the space isn't available, etc., you've got a problem). Copy them to a hard drive/server first. HTH, "Suanne Lippman" wrote in message ... Only about 1 out of 5 saves get the error message. I should have mentioned that. |
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Excel won't let me save, and then the file is gone?!
This used to happen to me frequently when I worked for a small company that
had a very unreliable network. Anytime there was a hit on the network, if I had a network file open at that time, it would act as you describe. Only solution was to SAVE many tmes per day, until I could get a new job......... Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "Suanne Lippman" wrote: I am running Office98 on a 1 year old Emachines and WXP home. About 6 months ago when I tried to save a spreadsheet it would say the spreadsheet can't be saved, but the system was saving it to a temporary file with some bizarre name. It told me to open the temporary file and then save it. Well, I never did find the temporary files, but had to recreate the spreadsheets. Now I find I can copy the sheet to the clipboard, close the existing file, create a new spread sheet and paste the clipboard. The old file is then simply gone, so I can save the new file to the old name. Any idea what is going on here? It is really obnoxious. It was okay until 6 months ago, and I am still running Excel98 on another WXP machine without problem. No other programs seem to be affected, or I would think it is a system/hardware problem. Thanks. |
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