Document Locked Read Only

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Jimmy

When I purchased my new laptop it came with a trial verison of Office
2003.

That version expired on the 1st, so I insalled my copy of Office 2000.

I opened a document I was working on, but then it crashed. Now when I
open the document it says that the document is locked for editing and
is now read only.

Can anyone help me with fixing this problem?

Much appreciated,

Thanks

By the way, I didn't uninstall the Office 2003 version in case I
wanted to purchase it later. Maybe I should have. Either way
shouldn't it still work?
 
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Dave Peterson

I mean that xl2003 is not the cause of your problem.

Kind of like a red herring in a detective story:
"in detective work, mystery fiction, and puzzle-solving, a false clue which
leads investigators, readers, or solvers towards an incorrect solution."
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring

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Did you reboot your pc after you deleted the temp files you could?
 
J

Jimmy

I mean that xl2003 is not the cause of your problem.

Kind of like a red herring in a detective story:
"in detective work, mystery fiction, and puzzle-solving, a false clue which
leads investigators, readers, or solvers towards an incorrect solution."
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring

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Did you reboot your pc after you deleted the temp files you could?
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Yes, I rebooted. Now I can access Excel, but it always crashes on me.
It seems to happen after I download the "ASAP" utility. It was
working fine with 2003.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
 
J

Jimmy

I mean that xl2003 is not the cause of your problem.

Kind of like a red herring in a detective story:
"in detective work, mystery fiction, and puzzle-solving, a false clue which
leads investigators, readers, or solvers towards an incorrect solution."
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring

====
Did you reboot your pc after you deleted the temp files you could?
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I forgot to mention that after Excel crashes the files become "read
only" again.

Very frustrating.
 
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Dave Peterson

There are lots of people who use ASAP. I'd be surprised if it was related to
that. But I'd uninstall it to test that theory.

And after excel crashes, it leaves files in the Windows Temp folder. Sometimes,
you can clean up that folder and you won't have to reboot.

Sometimes, you can use ctrl-alt-delete to kill any hidden instance of excel.

Sometimes, you may have to do both.

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If it only happens on one file, then maybe the file has gotten corrupted.

If it's only that one file...

Sometimes opening and saving in a different version of excel can help (sometimes
not).

If it is a corrupted workbook, you may want to try openoffice. Lots of people
have said that it's recovered workbooks that excel couldn't.

(http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD)

If the file is really important, there are commercial recovery services. I've
never used it, but you might want to check into:
http://www.officerecovery.com
 
J

Jimmy

There are lots of people who use ASAP. I'd be surprised if it was related to
that. But I'd uninstall it to test that theory.

And after excel crashes, it leaves files in the Windows Temp folder. Sometimes,
you can clean up that folder and you won't have to reboot.

Sometimes, you can use ctrl-alt-delete to kill any hidden instance of excel.

Sometimes, you may have to do both.

========
If it only happens on one file, then maybe the file has gotten corrupted.

If it's only that one file...

Sometimes opening and saving in a different version of excel can help (sometimes
not).

If it is a corrupted workbook, you may want to try openoffice. Lots of people
have said that it's recovered workbooks that excel couldn't.

(http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD)

If the file is really important, there are commercial recovery services. I've
never used it, but you might want to check into:
http://www.officerecovery.com
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Thanks for your help.

This is what I did.

First I uninstalled Excel 2003. I then uninstalled ASAP and
reinstalled. I deleted the temp files, rebooted, and I was able to
get Excel 2000 to work right. I was able to edit, etc.

However, when I tried to do a copy paste it crashed again. Deleted
temp riles, rebooted, crashed again.

I can do a little bit of work, but when I try to copy paste down it
goes.

I just tried to open it again and now it's read only again!

I need that file, but I don't want to have to jump through hoops to
get it.

What's your best suggeston?

Thanks, again.
 
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Dave Peterson

Is it only that one file that's crashing?

If it is, then I'd guess that file was on the cusp of being corrupt (on the bad
side!).

Did opening it in OpenOffice and saving it there help?

If no, then maybe it's time to rebuild that workbook.
 
J

Jimmy

Is it only that one file that's crashing?

If it is, then I'd guess that file was on the cusp of being corrupt (on the bad
side!).

Did opening it in OpenOffice and saving it there help?

If no, then maybe it's time to rebuild that workbook.

Jimmy wrote:
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Actually, I was able to copy that file. Those copies were what I was
working on. I can't open the original file any longer. Both copies
also crashed the system.

I'm downloading open office now. I don't really understand what it
is. Is it just a different way to access the same files, or is it
spread sheet platform from which I can open an Excel file?

Just a little confused.

Thanks again
 
J

Jimmy

Actually, I was able to copy that file. Those copies were what I was
working on. I can't open the original file any longer. Both copies
also crashed the system.

I'm downloading open office now. I don't really understand what it
is. Is it just a different way to access the same files, or is it
spread sheet platform from which I can open an Excel file?

Just a little confused.

Thanks again
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Well, I was able to open and edit with OpenOffice. Thanks for that
suggestion.

When I first tried to use it though, they were read only, but after
rebooting and clearing out the temp file they opened no problem. So I
saved it as something else.

I have no idea what I'm doing, but as long as it works I guess I'm OK.

Thanks for your help, it's much appreciated.
 
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Dave Peterson

OpenOffice is alternative (free!) Office Suite of programs--but you know that
now.

After you've opened the troublesome .xls file in OpenOffice and saved it there,
you may want to try opening that newly saved file in excel to see if the
problems have disappeared.

If they still return, you may want to create new workbook and copy the values,
formulas, formatting, range names, code, ....

To new worksheets in that new workbook.

It might get rid of that corruption, too.
 
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