I did search through all of the hits for book.xls and tried some of the
solutions just in case but none worked.

Somehow, in Excel 2003, I managed to save the book.xls with a document
included. Now whenever I open Excel I get the document with the filename
book.xls and I am informed that it is in use by myself and canonly be opened
as "Read Only". Not matter what I try I cannot get it back to the original
book.xls. I tried wiping the document out of book.xls leaving a blank
workbook/sheet but it won't let me save over it so I saved it as a "copy of
book.xls" with the intention of manually deleting the bad copy and adding my
new one, once I renamed it book.xls. No deal either. I checked the properties
of the bad book.xls and it does not indicate read-only there....but when I
open it or try to replace it.....no dice.
Any suggestions?
Jack

Could be you have a file named book.xls in your XLstartup directory. Or it
might be being called by a WorkbookOpen macro.

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"Jack_Feeman" wrote:

I did search through all of the hits for book.xls and tried some of the
solutions just in case but none worked.

Somehow, in Excel 2003, I managed to save the book.xls with a document
included. Now whenever I open Excel I get the document with the filename
book.xls and I am informed that it is in use by myself and canonly be opened
as "Read Only". Not matter what I try I cannot get it back to the original
book.xls. I tried wiping the document out of book.xls leaving a blank
workbook/sheet but it won't let me save over it so I saved it as a "copy of
book.xls" with the intention of manually deleting the bad copy and adding my
new one, once I renamed it book.xls. No deal either. I checked the properties
of the bad book.xls and it does not indicate read-only there....but when I
open it or try to replace it.....no dice.
Any suggestions?
Jack

I do but I cannot get rid of it. I cannot delete it even when Excel is
closed and after a reboot. It is not called for preloading on the General tab
either. And I do not recall any macros I have written to call it up. The file
book1.xls is located in
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

My mistake... the file is book1.xls not book.xls......but it opens whenever
I open Excel as read only.

Thanks a the quick response!

"CLR" wrote:

Could be you have a file named book.xls in your XLstartup directory. Or it
might be being called by a WorkbookOpen macro.

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"Jack_Feeman" wrote:

I did search through all of the hits for book.xls and tried some of the
solutions just in case but none worked.

Somehow, in Excel 2003, I managed to save the book.xls with a document
included. Now whenever I open Excel I get the document with the filename
book.xls and I am informed that it is in use by myself and canonly be opened
as "Read Only". Not matter what I try I cannot get it back to the original
book.xls. I tried wiping the document out of book.xls leaving a blank
workbook/sheet but it won't let me save over it so I saved it as a "copy of
book.xls" with the intention of manually deleting the bad copy and adding my
new one, once I renamed it book.xls. No deal either. I checked the properties
of the bad book.xls and it does not indicate read-only there....but when I
open it or try to replace it.....no dice.
Any suggestions?
Jack

With Excel closed you should be able to delete, or move it to a non used
directory somewhere.......otherwise, maybe you can change it's extention to
xxx or something like that.....

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"Jack_Feeman" wrote:

I do but I cannot get rid of it. I cannot delete it even when Excel is
closed and after a reboot. It is not called for preloading on the General tab
either. And I do not recall any macros I have written to call it up. The file
book1.xls is located in
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

My mistake... the file is book1.xls not book.xls......but it opens whenever
I open Excel as read only.

Thanks a the quick response!

"CLR" wrote:

Could be you have a file named book.xls in your XLstartup directory. Or it
might be being called by a WorkbookOpen macro.

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"Jack_Feeman" wrote:

I did search through all of the hits for book.xls and tried some of the
solutions just in case but none worked.

Somehow, in Excel 2003, I managed to save the book.xls with a document
included. Now whenever I open Excel I get the document with the filename
book.xls and I am informed that it is in use by myself and canonly be opened
as "Read Only". Not matter what I try I cannot get it back to the original
book.xls. I tried wiping the document out of book.xls leaving a blank
workbook/sheet but it won't let me save over it so I saved it as a "copy of
book.xls" with the intention of manually deleting the bad copy and adding my
new one, once I renamed it book.xls. No deal either. I checked the properties
of the bad book.xls and it does not indicate read-only there....but when I
open it or try to replace it.....no dice.
Any suggestions?
Jack

I went to try your suggestions...no deal. Then it dawned on me...maybe there
is another copy of Excel running in the back ground. So I opened Task Manager
and even though I had exited Excel through the FileExit method there was
another copy running inthe background. So now I am going to reboot again and
see if it opens two copies again.

Thanks for your time and quick responses.

Jack

"CLR" wrote:

With Excel closed you should be able to delete, or move it to a non used
directory somewhere.......otherwise, maybe you can change it's extention to
xxx or something like that.....

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"Jack_Feeman" wrote:

I do but I cannot get rid of it. I cannot delete it even when Excel is
closed and after a reboot. It is not called for preloading on the General tab
either. And I do not recall any macros I have written to call it up. The file
book1.xls is located in
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

My mistake... the file is book1.xls not book.xls......but it opens whenever
I open Excel as read only.

Thanks a the quick response!

"CLR" wrote:

Could be you have a file named book.xls in your XLstartup directory. Or it
might be being called by a WorkbookOpen macro.

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"Jack_Feeman" wrote:

I did search through all of the hits for book.xls and tried some of the
solutions just in case but none worked.

Somehow, in Excel 2003, I managed to save the book.xls with a document
included. Now whenever I open Excel I get the document with the filename
book.xls and I am informed that it is in use by myself and canonly be opened
as "Read Only". Not matter what I try I cannot get it back to the original
book.xls. I tried wiping the document out of book.xls leaving a blank
workbook/sheet but it won't let me save over it so I saved it as a "copy of
book.xls" with the intention of manually deleting the bad copy and adding my
new one, once I renamed it book.xls. No deal either. I checked the properties
of the bad book.xls and it does not indicate read-only there....but when I
open it or try to replace it.....no dice.
Any suggestions?
Jack