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Old April 9th 20, 04:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Strange behavior of Excel 2003

Since about a couple of months, the Excel from Office 2003 Pro started
misbehaving. When I try to save a particular document, it says that a sharing
violation occurred and offers to save it under a different name. Apparently the
sharing violation is with itself, since nobody else edits that document. Saving
it under a different name works, until one tries to just save it, when again the
violation happens. It didn't do that before; something changed. Any idea what it
might be and how to make it work normally with this file again?
The circumstances:
- a virtualized XP Professional in VirtualBox
- the issue happens only with this one particular document, other documents save OK
- the issue happens only on a virtual drive; in the original computer it was a
separate physical drive which I copied into a folder on the host and attached as
a logical drive. From the POV of the XP it is still a separate drive with the
same drive letter F: as it was when it was physical. The issue does /not/ happen
when saving the particular document on C: in let's say \My Documents.
Thanks for any ideas you might have.

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Old April 9th 20, 07:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
😉 Good Guy 😉
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Default Strange behavior of Excel 2003

On 09/04/2020 16:56, Patok wrote:
Since about a couple of months, the Excel from Office 2003 Pro started
misbehaving. When I try to save a particular document, it says that a
sharing violation occurred and offers to save it under a different
name. Apparently the sharing violation is with itself, since nobody
else edits that document. Saving it under a different name works,
until one tries to just save it, when again the violation happens. It
didn't do that before; something changed. Any idea what it might be
and how to make it work normally with this file again?


It's in the settings.Â* The normal.dot is trying to save settings all the
time when it shouldn't.Â* You need to uncheck the box that says "prompt
to save ... ".

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/291352/you-are-prompted-to-save-the-changes-to-the-normal-dot-or-normal-dotm

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Old April 9th 20, 10:28 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Patok[_2_]
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Default Strange behavior of Excel 2003

😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:
On 09/04/2020 16:56, Patok wrote:

Since about a couple of months, the Excel from Office 2003 Pro
started misbehaving. When I try to save a particular document, it says
that a sharing violation occurred and offers to save it under a
different name. Apparently the sharing violation is with itself, since
nobody else edits that document. Saving it under a different name
works, until one tries to just save it, when again the violation
happens. It didn't do that before; something changed. Any idea what it
might be and how to make it work normally with this file again?


It's in the settings. The normal.dot is trying to save settings all the
time when it shouldn't. You need to uncheck the box that says "prompt
to save ... ".

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/291352/you-are-prompted-to-save-the-changes-to-the-normal-dot-or-normal-dotm


Thanks for the suggestion, Good Guy, but unfortunately it is not applicable.
Excel doesn't have a normal.dot and is not trying to save it. OTOH, Word has a
normal.dot, but it is working fine here with no problems.

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Old April 9th 20, 10:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_7_]
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Default Strange behavior of Excel 2003

On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 00:28:58, Patok
wrote:
0 On 09/04/2020 16:56, Patok wrote:

Since about a couple of months, the Excel from Office 2003 Pro
started misbehaving. When I try to save a particular document, it
says that a sharing violation occurred and offers to save it under a
different name. Apparently the sharing violation is with itself,
since nobody else edits that document. Saving it under a different
name works, until one tries to just save it, when again the
violation happens. It didn't do that before; something changed. Any
idea what it might be and how to make it work normally with this file again?

It's in the settings. The normal.dot is trying to save settings all
the time when it shouldn't. You need to uncheck the box that says
"prompt to save ... ".

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/...prompted-to-sa
ve-the-changes-to-the-normal-dot-or-normal-dotm


Thanks for the suggestion, Good Guy, but unfortunately it is not
applicable. Excel doesn't have a normal.dot and is not trying to save
it. OTOH, Word has a normal.dot, but it is working fine here with no
problems.

Not saying it's the answer to your problem, but Excel (including 2003)
_can_ have template files - the extension is .xlt; however, I don't
think their existence is as compulsory as normal.dot is for Word.
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Old April 9th 20, 11:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul in Houston TX[_2_]
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Default Strange behavior of Excel 2003

Patok wrote:
Â* Since about a couple of months, the Excel from Office 2003 Pro
started misbehaving. When I try to save a particular document, it says
that a sharing violation occurred and offers to save it under a
different name. Apparently the sharing violation is with itself, since
nobody else edits that document. Saving it under a different name works,
until one tries to just save it, when again the violation happens. It
didn't do that before; something changed. Any idea what it might be and
how to make it work normally with this file again?
Â* The circumstances:
- a virtualized XP Professional in VirtualBox
- the issue happens only with this one particular document, other
documents save OK
- the issue happens only on a virtual drive; in the original computer it
was a separate physical drive which I copied into a folder on the host
and attached as a logical drive. From the POV of the XP it is still a
separate drive with the same drive letter F: as it was when it was
physical. The issue does /not/ happen when saving the particular
document on C: in let's say \My Documents.
Â* Thanks for any ideas you might have.


See if anything here helps:
https://windowsreport.com/excel-shar...olation-error/

 




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