excel 97 filename truncation in Windows XP Pro

[Lang Luckenbach]

I have a legacy application that runs in Excel 97. I have
Excel 97 and Excel XP loaded on a new machine that runs
Windows XP Pro. The legacy application fails because the
filename of a workbook is truncated during the saveas
command. When I do a manual saveas in Excel 97, the
filename truncates to the first letter. If I do the same
thing in Excel XP, the saveas works normally.

 

[Dave Peterson]

There have been a few posts describing the same problem. I searched google and
found this:

http://google.com/[email protected]

The last post in the thread suggested an answer. (I think it has something to
do with WindowsXP). I don't think I've ever seen this option in Win98 or
WinNT.)

Copying from that post:
From: Donut Man ([email protected])
Subject: Re: excel save problem
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.excel.misc
Date: 2003-04-24 21:10:48 PST

I think I have the solution to the problem:

Excel was running in Windows 95 compatibility mode. When I disabled
compatibility mode the file name problem went away.