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Milton Beychok
I am using Excel 97. As of a few days ago, every time I
start Excel I get a dialogue box that says "Personal.xls
is being modified by Milt" (that's me) and giving me three
choices: (1) Open the Personal.xls as a Read Only file,
(2) Notify me when it becomes available, (3) Cancel.
No matter which choice I take, the same dialogue box
appears the next time I start Excel. The only way I have
found to stop getting that dialogue box is to go to Progam
Files/Microsoft Office/Office/XLS Start ... in which
folder resides the file Personal.xls and right click on
that file and then select Properties and then check the
attribute Read Only. In other words, I make it a read
only file.
(a) Does making Personal.xls a read only file interfere
with its function?
(b) Is there any other way to stop having that dialogue
box appear when I start Excel?
(c) Is there any way to delete the existing Personal. xls
file and force Excel to create a new uncorrupted
Personal.xls file? Or would that cause the loss of some of
my customizing settings?
The only reason I can think of for the occurrence of the
dialogue box is that last week, when I was trying to learn
how to create macros, I may have triggered the problem
I'm now having.
Thanks in advance,
Milt Beychok
start Excel I get a dialogue box that says "Personal.xls
is being modified by Milt" (that's me) and giving me three
choices: (1) Open the Personal.xls as a Read Only file,
(2) Notify me when it becomes available, (3) Cancel.
No matter which choice I take, the same dialogue box
appears the next time I start Excel. The only way I have
found to stop getting that dialogue box is to go to Progam
Files/Microsoft Office/Office/XLS Start ... in which
folder resides the file Personal.xls and right click on
that file and then select Properties and then check the
attribute Read Only. In other words, I make it a read
only file.
(a) Does making Personal.xls a read only file interfere
with its function?
(b) Is there any other way to stop having that dialogue
box appear when I start Excel?
(c) Is there any way to delete the existing Personal. xls
file and force Excel to create a new uncorrupted
Personal.xls file? Or would that cause the loss of some of
my customizing settings?
The only reason I can think of for the occurrence of the
dialogue box is that last week, when I was trying to learn
how to create macros, I may have triggered the problem
I'm now having.
Thanks in advance,
Milt Beychok