Excel 97 on Windows XP - Filename Truncation Issue

[Les]

I'm currently having a problem with Excel 97 running on Windows XP
Home in which every time I go to save a file it truncates whatever I
put in the filename to 1 letter. ie Filename "Units" becomes "U".

Any ideas?

 

[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.

 

[Les]

Thanks Dave

That worked a treat. I was a bit bemused as I have two machines
running XP Home & Excel 97 and only one of them was displaying the
symptom.

Many thanks once again.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Thanks for posting back.

I don't recall any one saying that it worked!