Recognizing current users in locked sheets.

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Here at our company we will have multiple people working on the sam
Excel sheets. It can become a problem when multiple people need to ad
something on the same sheet. To avoid major problems, these kind o
sheets are setup to only allow a single user write access at a time.

However, we would like to be able to find out who is working on a shee
when it is locked. Currently, when opening on of these files (in thi
case an inventory file) I get the message.

-"Inventory.xls is locked for editing

by ' '.

Open in Read Only or click Notify to blah blah blah"-

I don't really understand why it's not recognizing the user who has th
file opened for editing. Shouldn't their computer name or user name b
in ' '?

Thanks for any advice

 

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