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Error Message when I try to open Excel files
Just got a new computer with Windows XP Home Edition. The old computer
was Windows 98. Whenever I try and open any of my Excel 97 spreadsheets, I get error message: "A document with the same '******.xls' is already open. You cannot open two documents with the same name, even if the documents are in different folders. To open the second document, either close the document that's currently open, or rename one of the documents." If I click OK the spreadsheet is ready. It apparently wants to open the same file twice. Any suggestions as this is becoming aggrevating and sometime our more complicated spreadsheets won't open at all. Thank you. --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ |
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Error Message when I try to open Excel files
Hi
see: http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#AlreadyOpen -- Regards Frank Kabel Frankfurt, Germany Just got a new computer with Windows XP Home Edition. The old computer was Windows 98. Whenever I try and open any of my Excel 97 spreadsheets, I get error message: "A document with the same '******.xls' is already open. You cannot open two documents with the same name, even if the documents are in different folders. To open the second document, either close the document that's currently open, or rename one of the documents." If I click OK the spreadsheet is ready. It apparently wants to open the same file twice. Any suggestions as this is becoming aggrevating and sometime our more complicated spreadsheets won't open at all. Thank you. --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ |
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Error Message when I try to open Excel files
Hi Terri,
SYMPTOMS In Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, when you click the Address bar arrow and select a Microsoft Excel 2000 workbook, you may receive the following error message: A document with the name 'file name.xls' is already open. You cannot open two documents with the same name, even if the documents are in different folders. To open the second document, either close the document that's currently open, or rename one of the documents. In Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, when you click the Address bar arrow and select a Microsoft Excel workbook, you may receive the following error message: Reference Is Not Valid. CAUSE This problem occurs if all of the following conditions are true: In the versions of Internet Explorer listed at the beginning of this article, you open an Excel workbook that contains hyperlinks. -and- You click a hyperlink in the Excel workbook that jumps to a named location within that same workbook. -and- After you follow the hyperlink to a named location in the workbook, you then click the same workbook name in the Address bar list. NOTE: The error message may also occur when you open an Excel workbook in Internet Explorer and then attempt to open the same workbook again by selecting it from the Address bar list. MORE INFORMATION In Excel, you can use a hyperlink to jump to an object, file, page, or other destination, such as a named location or a specific cell range. When you follow a hyperlink to a named location or to a specific cell range in the same workbook, Excel performs a Goto command and selects the location in the same workbook. If the workbook is open in Internet Explorer, and if you follow the hyperlink, there is no way to go back to the previous location in the same workbook. When you click the Back button in Internet Explorer, you go to the previous address. If you select the workbook in the Address bar list, Internet Explorer attempts to open another copy of the same workbook and produces the error message described in the "Symptoms" section. The Web toolbar in Excel allows you to go to the previous location in the same workbook, but you cannot display the Web toolbar inside Internet Explorer. This problem does not occur in Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5.x or later. Please let me know has this helped You... Thank You... Raghu... This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. |
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Error Message when I try to open Excel files
I'm not sure that this helps in that we are not opening excel using
internet explorer. The files that are opening properly are actually the very easy spreadsheets that do not contain any goto commands. So I don't think this is our problem. If you have any additional suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ |
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Error Message when I try to open Excel files
Took a look at further Solutions...
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