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[Guest]

Text files cannot be opened in Excel. This message says
"The file may be read-only or yo may be trying to access a read-only location, or the server the document is stored on may not be responding". I've checked properties and network access. Any ideas

 

[Mark E. Philpot]

This has happened to me but for different reasons. Did you
copy this file from a diskette or did you create it
yourself?

The problem I encountered was that my floppy drive was not
writing properly but once i chaged the floppy drive
setting to write-behind caching, all is well now.

You will have to find a backup copy of the txt file. Try
opening it in wordpad or notepad or word for windows. if
it opens thenresave it as a .txtfile, overwrite, yes.

regards
mark

-----Original Message-----
Text files cannot be opened in Excel. This message says:
"The file may be read-only or yo may be trying to access

a read-only location, or the server the document is stored
on may not be responding". I've checked properties and
network access. Any ideas

 

[Buzz]

Thanks for responding...I am exporting a text file from
another program to my hard drive, then I try to import it
into Excel as a tab delimited file. That's when I get
this message. How do I change to write-behind caching on
my hard drive?