Excel 2000

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Brenda

A user with Administrative authority on local hard drive
goes into a network folder that she has rights to and
makes changes to an excel spreadsheet. When she hits the
save button it saves the worksheet, but also put a file
in that folder named C8f6000(different every time). That
file can be opened just like any excel file. The icon for
this file looks like a small desktop inside.
Administrator user does not have this happen and also
another user with admin privledges doesn't have this
happen either. I have compared settings and all look the
same. Any ideas? Any help would be appreciated
 
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Dave Peterson

When excel saves the file, it saves it as a temporary file with a funny name (8
characters--no extension).

If the save is successful, xl will delete the original and if that's successful,
xl will rename the funny named file to the original's name.

Common things that get blamed for interruptions to this process are antivirus
software poking its head in or network errors--either permissions or physical
problems.

It sure sounds like they don't have all the permissions they need (read is ok,
delete may be missing--was the original workbook still there?)

I'd check once more with the IT folks.
 
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