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Excel 2003
Hi Folks,
I use MS Office 2003 at work and none of our support people can solve this problem. Some people use Excel and floppy disks to store their weekly reports. When a person opens a file on their floppy disk and does their work and then saves it on the floppy all is fine. However the next time someone opens Excel, before Excel can open the program it tries to open the floppy disk for 15 or 20 second before the Excel will load. Sometimes it will not load and hangs up. The same terminal is used by many different people. I have set all the options I can find, such as, zero most recent documents, no automatic backup save. I have checked all the shortcuts to see if the "Start In" location is My Documents. If you open and close Excel three or four times and let it search the floppy the problem goes away until the next time someone works with a floppy. I think the answer is a hack in the registry somewhere but I don't know where. Any ideas would be appreciated. Malcolm Later, Malcolm |
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The best approach is to copy the file to the specific XL folder using
Windows Explorer. Make your revisions and calculations. Save, close, and do the reverse ... copy to the floppy using Windows Explorer. The *only* type of removable media that *I* have been able to actually work an XL file in, was a ZIP disc, where the size of the XL file was *less* then 50% of the capacity of the ZIP. -- HTH, RD ============================================== Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ============================================== "Malcolm" wrote in message ... Hi Folks, I use MS Office 2003 at work and none of our support people can solve this problem. Some people use Excel and floppy disks to store their weekly reports. When a person opens a file on their floppy disk and does their work and then saves it on the floppy all is fine. However the next time someone opens Excel, before Excel can open the program it tries to open the floppy disk for 15 or 20 second before the Excel will load. Sometimes it will not load and hangs up. The same terminal is used by many different people. I have set all the options I can find, such as, zero most recent documents, no automatic backup save. I have checked all the shortcuts to see if the "Start In" location is My Documents. If you open and close Excel three or four times and let it search the floppy the problem goes away until the next time someone works with a floppy. I think the answer is a hack in the registry somewhere but I don't know where. Any ideas would be appreciated. Malcolm Later, Malcolm |
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On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:01:19 -0700, "RagDyer"
wrote: The best approach is to copy the file to the specific XL folder using Windows Explorer. Make your revisions and calculations. Save, close, and do the reverse ... copy to the floppy using Windows Explorer. The *only* type of removable media that *I* have been able to actually work an XL file in, was a ZIP disc, where the size of the XL file was *less* then 50% of the capacity of the ZIP. The reason for that is after you make changes on a file in MS Excel it makes a new file on the media then compares them and deletes the original file. Thus you need more than twice the space of the working file. Later, Malcolm |
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