Trouble with an Excel Document

[warriorfan808]

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?

[nihil]

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?

[foxyloxley]

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 ?

[Egaladeist]

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

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

[Cemetric]

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.