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Excel keeps checking for a floppy...
I have Excel 2003 and it keeps checking to see if there is a floppy disk in
the drive, to the point that you can't close Excel without having a floppy in the drive. Any ideas how fix this? -- ============================================ Gregory A. Wandless Chemist US Geological Survey MS 954 Reston, VA 20192 Email: Phone: (703) 648-6189 ============================================ |
I'm not sure this will be it, but you can check your settings to see if the A
drive is listed as the default drive. Click ToolsOptions | General tab and see what is listed here as 'Default file location'. HTH Bruce "Gregory A. Wandless" wrote: I have Excel 2003 and it keeps checking to see if there is a floppy disk in the drive, to the point that you can't close Excel without having a floppy in the drive. Any ideas how fix this? -- ============================================ Gregory A. Wandless Chemist US Geological Survey MS 954 Reston, VA 20192 Email: Phone: (703) 648-6189 ============================================ |
"Gregory A. Wandless" wrote in message ... I have Excel 2003 and it keeps checking to see if there is a floppy disk in the drive, to the point that you can't close Excel without having a floppy in the drive. Any ideas how fix this? -- ============================================ Gregory A. Wandless Chemist US Geological Survey MS 954 Reston, VA 20192 Email: Phone: (703) 648-6189 ============================================ Does this happen when you use a certain workbook or at all times? /Fredrik |
Gregory A. Wandless wrote
I have Excel 2003 and it keeps checking to see if there is a floppy disk in the drive, to the point that you can't close Excel without having a floppy in the drive. Any ideas how fix this? A long shot, but open and save as many different Excel files from the HARD DRIVE as are indicated under Tools|Options|General tab|'Recently used file list:' (that's where it is in XL2000) and see if that helps. -- David |
Fredrik,
All the time, not with one specfic workbook. -- ============================================ Gregory A. Wandless Chemist US Geological Survey MS 954 Reston, VA 20192 Email: Phone: (703) 648-6189 ============================================ "Fredrik Wahlgren" wrote in message ... "Gregory A. Wandless" wrote in message ... I have Excel 2003 and it keeps checking to see if there is a floppy disk in the drive, to the point that you can't close Excel without having a floppy in the drive. Any ideas how fix this? -- ============================================ Gregory A. Wandless Chemist US Geological Survey MS 954 Reston, VA 20192 Email: Phone: (703) 648-6189 ============================================ Does this happen when you use a certain workbook or at all times? /Fredrik |
"Gregory A. Wandless" wrote in message ... Fredrik, All the time, not with one specfic workbook. I assume you have checked everything under tools|Settings. There shouldn't be a refrence to A:\ anywhere. Is it possible you have a macro that checks for a floppy in personal.xls If not a macro, do you use any add-ins? I guess you could have an add-in if the computer isn't your personal one. /Fredrik |
I liked your idea about the MRU filenames.
Gord Dibben posted this a couple of years ago for a similar problem: http://google.co.uk/groups?threadm=9...j9% 404ax.com Fredrik Wahlgren wrote: "Gregory A. Wandless" wrote in message ... Fredrik, All the time, not with one specfic workbook. I assume you have checked everything under tools|Settings. There shouldn't be a refrence to A:\ anywhere. Is it possible you have a macro that checks for a floppy in personal.xls If not a macro, do you use any add-ins? I guess you could have an add-in if the computer isn't your personal one. /Fredrik -- Dave Peterson |
Dave Peterson wrote
I liked your idea about the MRU filenames. That's what led to my suggestion of opening enough HD based files to overwrite the MRU. -- David |
Oops. Sorry.
I remembered reading the comment, but I didn't remember who wrote it. David wrote: Dave Peterson wrote I liked your idea about the MRU filenames. That's what led to my suggestion of opening enough HD based files to overwrite the MRU. -- David -- Dave Peterson |
David wrote
Oops. Sorry. I remembered reading the comment, but I didn't remember who wrote it. Referring to OP's statement: to the point that you can't close Excel without having a floppy in the drive. That doesn't match my experience. While my drive was polled until I overwrote the MRU, it only occurred when Excel was first opened, not continuously and I could still close Excel. I guess what I'm saying is that the MRU may not be the OP's issue. -- David |
Does this happen with any other Application? I am having a similar problem
with Word. I haven't tried the solutions yet, I'll let you know. "David" wrote: Gregory A. Wandless wrote I have Excel 2003 and it keeps checking to see if there is a floppy disk in the drive, to the point that you can't close Excel without having a floppy in the drive. Any ideas how fix this? A long shot, but open and save as many different Excel files from the HARD DRIVE as are indicated under Tools|Options|General tab|'Recently used file list:' (that's where it is in XL2000) and see if that helps. -- David |
Check under Tools, Options, General tab and make sure that the default file
location is not the floppy drive. HTH Ken |
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