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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. -- You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone. * Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn. |
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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 Path: aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Patok Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Strange behavior of Excel 2003 Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 18:56:38 +0300 Organization: Gyola Lines: 21 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 15:56:50 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="74920462a396722db0432e9a4d6e5df6"; logging-data="2321"; "; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/iDusEEeuGhGW0Fi3YReEoDCAZfd0p7IQ=" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) Cancel-Lock: sha1Y+qb/Pm5ddNFjIIlqSIOIm8CwQ= Xref: aioe.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:156212 -- With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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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. -- You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone. * Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn. |
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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. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Actors are fairly modest...A lot of us have quite a lot to be modest about. - Simon Greenall (voice of Aleksandr the "Simples!" Meerkat), RT 11-17 Dec 2010 |
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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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