I have written this question pnce but it has gone, vanished somewhere.
However, I have written a large excell programme for monitoring key
performance information and report in chart form things like, scrap rates,
process delays, maintenance and quality reports of various kinds. The whole
programme runs in visual basic, the user can only press buttons and input
data, all else is automated. I took months to write this in code but the
pleasure of getting the thing working correctly made it worth it.

That was in Excel 2000, the company having upgraded to office 2003 now find
the eroor "Unable to Open File" at start up and the pivot tables are
destroyed when the programme eventually runs. I know that this is a known
issue with Excel 2003 and that it is something to do with auto save and
protect workbook commands.

My question is, is there a work round for this, a downloadable patch or
something or is there a good excel help site for this problem?????

Your urgent assistance would be much appreciated

Thanks, MikeB

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