I am having a terrible time with a corrupted shared excel workbook. In my
case, this shared workbook has been restored from a good backup but as soon
as the users try to access the shared workbook, the file becomes corrupted.
The users are accessing the file from different computers and different
locations (multiple offices). I believe that there are some temp files that
contain old sessions of excel as with one user when she opens the shared
file, her version of excel will take a long time and she gets the message
that she has locked the spreadsheet even if she has not opened it. The weird
thing is that out of say 10 people sharing the spreadsheet, one user can
always open and use the spreadsheet and she is in the other office. The
spreadsheet is shared on a server and backed up nightly. What can I do to
resolve this problem?

I hate to reply to myself but I am hoping that the experts can help me out
here. I looked at the shared spreadsheet with the help of the network
administrator and he pointed out that the users (tools menu - shared
workbook) listed in who is sharing this workbook, I could see duplicate user
names with various dates. We removed the shared duplicate users, the oldest
first and that seemed to help the spreadsheet open better but some users are
still opening the shared spreadsheet very slowly. One user is also having
problems in that she saves the spreadsheet twice (not sure how as I cannot
see what is happening on that server). If anyone can let me know what I can
do to solve this problem, I would be grateful.

"Edward Letendre" wrote:

I am having a terrible time with a corrupted shared excel workbook. In my
case, this shared workbook has been restored from a good backup but as soon
as the users try to access the shared workbook, the file becomes corrupted.
The users are accessing the file from different computers and different
locations (multiple offices). I believe that there are some temp files that
contain old sessions of excel as with one user when she opens the shared
file, her version of excel will take a long time and she gets the message
that she has locked the spreadsheet even if she has not opened it. The weird
thing is that out of say 10 people sharing the spreadsheet, one user can
always open and use the spreadsheet and she is in the other office. The
spreadsheet is shared on a server and backed up nightly. What can I do to
resolve this problem?