Maybe Excel "froze" on you. Did you check the Task Manager to see if it was
still running?

"Loring Hutchinson" wrote in message
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I am running Excel 2003, using Win XP (Home Ed). I opened a worksheet
I was working on and when I went to save the file, I went to The FILE
pulldown menu and the SAVE command was greyed out so I could not use
the save command. Then when I went to close Excel using the red X in
the upper right hand cornerit would not work. Went to the FILE
pulldown menu and tried to use the EXIT command, it was greyed out
also. Checking the other pulldown commands it appears that most
commands are greyed out. Wha happened???