I'll take that as a success, then!! <g Thanks for feeding back.

Pete

On Jul 2, 10:54*pm, Aaron8951
wrote:
The weird thing is that i only opened the file one time and if i close one of
them, it usually closes them both. *If i have the file open already then try
to open it again, it doesn't add the colon and number, just re-arranges the
sort order in View/Switch Windows. *If i open up another instance of Excel
then try to open the file, it tells me it's locked for editing followed by
the usual choices. *I was able to close one of the windows, saved it and now
it appears to have solved it for now. *Welcome to Windows mystery???? Another
thank you letter to Mr. Gates.