double opening files

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elaine

When I try to open an Excel file, MS Excel seems to open
the document twice, thereby creating an error the second
time it opens and will only open a read-only document
saying someone else has it open.

Is this is BUG and is there a PATCH I can download?

This is with MS Excel 97 on an NT platform

thanks
Elaine ;)
 
I got a similar problem using Excel 97 on an Windows XP machine, which was
soved by uninstalling then reinstaling Excel 97.

hth

AndyO
 
Sometimes one of these works:

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.

An alternative might be to do:
Try Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)
 
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