opening files simultaneously with same name but different path

[Kim]

In Excel 2007, it won't let the two files with the same name be open at the
same time, even though they're really 2 separate files with different paths.
Is there a way around this aside from saving one in 2003 format and one in
2007 format?

 

[Jim Thomlinson]

That is not an issue of XL2007. No version of XL has ever let you open two
files with the same name.

 

[Sean Timmons]

Can always tempoarily rename one of them. Add a 1 at the end or something.
Then, when done, close the other file, save as the changed file back to
original name.