Trouble with an Excel Document

I couldn't find any forums on here that go over this, but I'm having some issues with Excel.

I have an Excel document shared on a Server 2003 Network.

All users have appropriate access to this file.

The excel doc is password protected

After opening it, I tried saving changes and recieved the following error message, "This file is locked. Try the command again later" Waited a long while and tried again, still got the same error. That was yesterday, still the same problem persists.

I went into Server 2003 file management to be assured that no one else is accessing the file.

I opened up the file through Excel to make sure I'm not opening through a viewer.

searched in the same directory for the file that starts with ~$, but was unable to find it. I figured someone might have crashed Excel and that would be there.

Now I'm stumpped. Anyone ever come across this problem?

OH! Dear!

What verion of excel are you running mate?

Try the repair and compact/compress tools if your version supports them....................

Run checkdisk or whatever ...............

How much freespace, and how big is your excel table file?

:)

could one of the other users have changed it ?

deliberatley or by accident, it will still be a pain
isn't there a history for the sheet, that would show who used it, when and what changed ?

AHEM! Have you recently downloaded any updates for McAfee? Perchance?

http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=274308
McAfee update exterminates Excel

Can you copy it locally onto your HDD and open/modify it ???
Maybe you need to change the owner to "administrators" and try again ...
There isn't any network-links in the Excel is there ?? They can cause some problems to .

.C.