Issue with opening Excel files from an email attachment

[bhorv67]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

i'm noticing that if I get an Excel file as an attachment, and I don't save it, just open it from the email message, after a few minutes, Excel (and possibly any of the other Office apps) will give an error that autosave will be disabled for the remainder of this session. I don't believe this was an issue with the older versions of Office 2008.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

i'm noticing that if I get an Excel file as an attachment, and I don't save
it, just open it from the email message, after a few minutes, Excel (and
possibly any of the other Office apps) will give an error that autosave will
be disabled for the remainder of this session. I don't believe this was an
issue with the older versions of Office 2008.

You don't say what the excel file is attached to (e.g., a message in
Entourage, Mail, a message in a webmail account, etc.), nor where it's
stored (e.g., locally, network volume), but I *always* recommend saving
a file to a permanent location before working with it.

Having said that, it sounds like a permissions issue. XL08 stores its
autorecover docs as invisible files in the directory in which the
original file resides. So wherever the file is when you open it as an
attachment, XL will try to save the AutoRecover file in that directory.
If it can't for some reason (insufficient permission, latency, etc.)
you'll get that error message.