File in use .... is locked for editing

[Simon L]

Please help.

In Microsoft Excel 2000, we seem to be getting the above
error message frequently. No other users are in the file,
and there aren't any temporary files relating to the file
in question. Any ideas on what is causing this?

We are running a mixture of Windows 2000 & XP machines on
to a Small Business Server 2000.

Hope to hear from someone soon

Regards
Simon

 

[Dave Peterson]

I think you killed the usual answer of cleaning the temp folder.

But have you rebooted? Maybe there's a hidden instance of excel running that
"owns" the file.

And if the file/workbook is on a network drive, maybe rebooting that server
would release it.

(in the absence of other replies, this'll give you something to try...)

good luck,

 

[Simon Langley]

Thanks for the advice, seems that the server reboot has
worked!!

Cheers
Simon