opening file from desktop shortcut

[jpm2111]

I have a funny situation. I have several users sharing a spreadshee
from a mapped drive. They each have a shortcut to the file on thei
desktop. When one opens it, makes a change and saves it, another use
then opens it and does not see the change. If this second user the
closes it, goes to the mapped drive and opens it from their it the
reflects the recent changes. How can this file be opened from a deskto
shortcut with all current changes shown

 

[Guest]

get everyone on the same OS and same Office

 

[jpm2111]

They're all on XP and office 2003 pr

 

[Dave Peterson]

I'd guess that someone's shortcut isn't pointing the the correct file.

In fact, you may want to check to make sure that each "shortcut" is really a
shortcut.

Maybe they copied the .xls file to the desktop and they're opening their own
copy.

If you put:
=cell("filename",a1)
in a cell, do you see what you expect to see?

(check it for each user.)