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Excel 97 - Read only/saving challenge

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DayHiker

IS-IT--Management
Nov 20, 2003
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I've got an Excel 97 document, shared on a server so multiple people can view it. Person A goes in and starts to modify the file. Person B goes in to look at the file, and it opens as read only. When person B goes to exit, it asks if person B would like to save the changes made. Being that it should be read only, the person answers no. Then, when person A goes to save the changes that were made, Excel pops up and error message saying it cannot save the file, and that it saved it as a temporary file elsewhere. Person A then has to reboot, because she cannot get back into the file, it tells her she's locked it out.

This happens on multiple documents, and has gotten increasingly worse over the past six months.
 
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