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Hi
When I open a workbook in Excel the name changes automatically.
A 1 is added to the name.
How do I stop this??


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If you open excel and then use File|Open to open the file, does it work ok?

I'm guessing that you're doubleclicking on yourworkbooknamehere.xls in windows
explorer.

If I'm right...

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If it's a .xlt file (a template), then this is the behavior you want. The
purpose of a template is so you can create a new workbook based on that
template.

If it's a .xls file...

The first thing that I'd try is to reregister excel to set it back to factory
defaults.

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

Then test it out.

If that doesn't work...

Close excel
start windows explorer
tools|folder options|file types tab
scroll down to the xls extension (microsoft excel worksheet)
click the advanced button
click on the Open item in the Actions box
click set as default
(ok your way out)

If the default action was set to New (bolded indicates default), then that could
have been your problem.

CDL wrote:

Hi
When I open a workbook in Excel the name changes automatically.
A 1 is added to the name.
How do I stop this??


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