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excel crashing
I have windows XP and Excel 2003 with all the latest service packs. When I am
trying to save an excel file to a floppy it always lock up after 3 or 4 times. Excel will just crash and it would take a restart of the whole computer before it will act right. I have tried other floppies, copying a different file all together from excel, swapping drives, reinstalling the whole office suite, reinstalling McAfee Virus Scan, etc. I did notice that it is something with excel and the floppy drive as a whole because I could copy all day long to the floppy random files from word, my c drive, a few files from excel (but not consecuetive .xls files in a row), and shortcuts, etc. I could copy .xls file to anyother drive i.e. bonzai (jump drive) that I have just not the floppy drive. Can you please help me to figure out why excel keeps crashing copying to a floppy? |
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Hi
You should never save an Excel sheet directly to a floppy - or open one directly from a floppy. Always copy to the hard drive and open - or save to the hard drive and copy to the floppy. Andy. "robin" wrote in message ... I have windows XP and Excel 2003 with all the latest service packs. When I am trying to save an excel file to a floppy it always lock up after 3 or 4 times. Excel will just crash and it would take a restart of the whole computer before it will act right. I have tried other floppies, copying a different file all together from excel, swapping drives, reinstalling the whole office suite, reinstalling McAfee Virus Scan, etc. I did notice that it is something with excel and the floppy drive as a whole because I could copy all day long to the floppy random files from word, my c drive, a few files from excel (but not consecuetive .xls files in a row), and shortcuts, etc. I could copy .xls file to anyother drive i.e. bonzai (jump drive) that I have just not the floppy drive. Can you please help me to figure out why excel keeps crashing copying to a floppy? |
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Ok thanks for the heads up but do you or anyone out there no why it is
locking excel up? I can save to a floppy on other machines but not to this particular one. Any help would be appreciated... "Andy" wrote: Hi You should never save an Excel sheet directly to a floppy - or open one directly from a floppy. Always copy to the hard drive and open - or save to the hard drive and copy to the floppy. Andy. "robin" wrote in message ... I have windows XP and Excel 2003 with all the latest service packs. When I am trying to save an excel file to a floppy it always lock up after 3 or 4 times. Excel will just crash and it would take a restart of the whole computer before it will act right. I have tried other floppies, copying a different file all together from excel, swapping drives, reinstalling the whole office suite, reinstalling McAfee Virus Scan, etc. I did notice that it is something with excel and the floppy drive as a whole because I could copy all day long to the floppy random files from word, my c drive, a few files from excel (but not consecuetive .xls files in a row), and shortcuts, etc. I could copy .xls file to anyother drive i.e. bonzai (jump drive) that I have just not the floppy drive. Can you please help me to figure out why excel keeps crashing copying to a floppy? |
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Robin: My guess is that the file is now too big...
******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "robin" wrote in message ... Ok thanks for the heads up but do you or anyone out there no why it is locking excel up? I can save to a floppy on other machines but not to this particular one. Any help would be appreciated... "Andy" wrote: Hi You should never save an Excel sheet directly to a floppy - or open one directly from a floppy. Always copy to the hard drive and open - or save to the hard drive and copy to the floppy. Andy. "robin" wrote in message ... I have windows XP and Excel 2003 with all the latest service packs. When I am trying to save an excel file to a floppy it always lock up after 3 or 4 times. Excel will just crash and it would take a restart of the whole computer before it will act right. I have tried other floppies, copying a different file all together from excel, swapping drives, reinstalling the whole office suite, reinstalling McAfee Virus Scan, etc. I did notice that it is something with excel and the floppy drive as a whole because I could copy all day long to the floppy random files from word, my c drive, a few files from excel (but not consecuetive .xls files in a row), and shortcuts, etc. I could copy .xls file to anyother drive i.e. bonzai (jump drive) that I have just not the floppy drive. Can you please help me to figure out why excel keeps crashing copying to a floppy? |
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Bottom line:
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/w...oft_office.htm ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "robin" wrote in message ... I have windows XP and Excel 2003 with all the latest service packs. When I am trying to save an excel file to a floppy it always lock up after 3 or 4 times. Excel will just crash and it would take a restart of the whole computer before it will act right. I have tried other floppies, copying a different file all together from excel, swapping drives, reinstalling the whole office suite, reinstalling McAfee Virus Scan, etc. I did notice that it is something with excel and the floppy drive as a whole because I could copy all day long to the floppy random files from word, my c drive, a few files from excel (but not consecuetive .xls files in a row), and shortcuts, etc. I could copy .xls file to anyother drive i.e. bonzai (jump drive) that I have just not the floppy drive. Can you please help me to figure out why excel keeps crashing copying to a floppy? |
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I have the same problem as Robin. I have two users. User 1 has Windows 2000
and Office 2000 and user 2 has Windows 2000 and Office 2003. Both have been doing the same routine for years without a problem. All of a sudden they both have problem with Office freezing when saving to floppy. User 1 is using Excel and user 2 with Word. I know everyone says don't save directly to floppy but these users do. The problem is from a Windows Update but I don't know which one. Can anyone help figure this out? Thanks! "robin" wrote: I have windows XP and Excel 2003 with all the latest service packs. When I am trying to save an excel file to a floppy it always lock up after 3 or 4 times. Excel will just crash and it would take a restart of the whole computer before it will act right. I have tried other floppies, copying a different file all together from excel, swapping drives, reinstalling the whole office suite, reinstalling McAfee Virus Scan, etc. I did notice that it is something with excel and the floppy drive as a whole because I could copy all day long to the floppy random files from word, my c drive, a few files from excel (but not consecuetive .xls files in a row), and shortcuts, etc. I could copy .xls file to anyother drive i.e. bonzai (jump drive) that I have just not the floppy drive. Can you please help me to figure out why excel keeps crashing copying to a floppy? |
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See also: http://support.microsoft.com/default...23120121120120 its a tips list, so look at "Do not open and save directly from a floppy disk" -- Jonathan May ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jonathan May's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=10924 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=385362 |
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