Why is Excel Save As feature not working?
I have Office Excel 2003 installed on my XP 2002 SP2 machine. (It's been installed for probably *at least* 2 years now.) Some time...I'd say in the last 1-2 months, although I cannot nail down the time-frame with 100% confidence...the 'Save As' feature (in Excel) stopped working. So, if I open an existing XLS spreadsheet or an existing tab-delimited text file within Excel, and do nothing but immediately attempt to 'Save As', Excel basically becomes useless -- I have to terminate Excel using Task Manager! Any thoughts as to why this is happening? I've made sure to do 'Windows Updates' and also the more specific 'Microsoft Office' updates....but still 'Save As' renders Excel useless. I have definitely used this feature successfully up until some time fairly recently...again, I think in the last 1-2 months. thanks in advance for your help! later, Ben |
Why is Excel Save As feature not working?
Right-click on the My Computer icon on the Windows desktop,
left-click on Disconnect Network Drive, and disconnect any mapped drives that are not currently available. If the previous suggestion doesn't help, then see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918165 "Problems in Windows Explorer or the Windows shell after you install security update MS06-015". If you aren't comfortable with editing the Windows registry yourself, then go to http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm and scroll down to Item No. 383 "Hewlett-Packard's Share-to-Web software - Fix". Download and run the script to automatically modify your registry as described in KB918165. You may need to temporarily disable your antivirus program in order to run the script. On April 25, a revised version of the MS06-015 update was released. The revised update supposedly interacts better with the older HP and nVidia software that the April 11 version had problems with. You can download the revised update from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms06-015.mspx . Ben Moir wrote: I have Office Excel 2003 installed on my XP 2002 SP2 machine. (It's been installed for probably *at least* 2 years now.) Some time...I'd say in the last 1-2 months, although I cannot nail down the time-frame with 100% confidence...the 'Save As' feature (in Excel) stopped working. So, if I open an existing XLS spreadsheet or an existing tab-delimited text file within Excel, and do nothing but immediately attempt to 'Save As', Excel basically becomes useless -- I have to terminate Excel using Task Manager! Any thoughts as to why this is happening? I've made sure to do 'Windows Updates' and also the more specific 'Microsoft Office' updates....but still 'Save As' renders Excel useless. I have definitely used this feature successfully up until some time fairly recently...again, I think in the last 1-2 months. thanks in advance for your help! later, Ben |
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