Number 1 appended to file names

[Guest]

Good day. Excel 2003 is appending a 1 to all the file names when I open
Excel. For example, when opening test.xls it opens as test1.xls. When I
click save it is giving me the "save as" window instead, as the file name
does not exist yet. Anyone know how to alleviate this?

Thanks.

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
maybe the following helps:

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
maybe the following helps:
http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#TwoWindows

 

[Dave Peterson]

I think Frank answered the question if you were seeing:

test.xls:1

But I have a couple of followups:

Are you sure you see the .xls in the title bar?

And is that workbook stored on your harddrive/network drive or is it an
attachment to an email?

 

[Gord Dibben]

What you describe is the behavior of a Template file being opened.

I would suggest that Test.xls was perhaps saved as a Template and is actually
Test.XLT

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:09:05 -0700, "Excel user" <Excel

 

[Dave Peterson]

But then you wouldn't see that extension (.xls) in the title bar.

 

[Gord Dibben]

So true.

Gord

But then you wouldn't see that extension (.xls) in the title bar.