2 mirror files with :1 and :2 - why?

[Guest]

Not sure how, but have 1 excel file, lets call it FILEA.xls and when I open
it, it opens a FILEA:1 and a FILEA:2 workbook. Any change made to FILEA:1
gets repeated in FILEA:2 and vice versa. Looks like some sort of mirroring,
or changes being tracked, but track changes is turned off. Any help is
appreciated!

 

[JulieD]

Hi

you've opened two windows of the same workbook (from the window /new window
menu) - just close one and then save - this should solve the problem

Cheers
JulieD

 

[Guest]

Julie,
Thats not it, closing one file closes the other. The 2 files are tied at
the hip somehow and whatever happens to one happens to the other. Very
strange!

 

[Dave Peterson]

JulieD wants you to close one of the windows--not the workbook.

Click on the window you don't want anymore (book1.xls:2 2??)), then hit ctrl-w
to close that window.

Don't forget to save the workbook the way you like it.

Debra Dalgleish has nice pictures at:
http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#TwoWindows

If you want to (carefully) hit one of those X's to close the window.