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Locked for Editing MS Excel

Started by raginbull69 , Aug 17 2006 02:52 PM

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raginbull69

Posted 17 August 2006 - 02:52 PM

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Hello, Wondering if anyone can help. I have a laptop and i created a new Excel Spreadsheet, done some bits and bobs in it and saved (all fine and dandy) but now when i go back into it it is saying "locked for editing" Which i would understand if i was working with a spreadsheet that other people could access and it might be open but its on my own personal laptop and i have just created it!

Any ideas guys?

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dsm

Posted 19 August 2006 - 12:07 AM

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Raginbull,
I am not sure why this is happening, however even though the file is locked for editing you should be able to make changes to the file and then save as a new filename.

After you have done this try closing then opening the new filename.
If this is successfull, you can delete the old filename and rename the new file if required.

HTH

DSM