Excel Cannot Open File With Same Name As A
March 4th 05, 03:03 AM |
Paul Try the usual fix(es) for this problem. ToolsOptionsGeneral uncheck 'Ignore other Applications' Exit Excel and try again If this doesn't work try to re-register Excel Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar 1) StartRun 'excel.exe /unregserver'(no quotes)OK. 2) StartRun 'excel.exe /regserver'(no quotes)OK. See the space between exe and /regserver You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe. In that case StartRun 'C:yourpathexcel.exe /regserver'(no quotes)OK. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 01:50:57 GMT, 'Paul W' wrote: I moved my Excel files (Microsoft Office 97) from an ME box to an XP Home machine via LAN connection, shared folder. When I open an Excel sheet, I get an error, 'Cannot open 2 documents with the same name.' I click OK and then the sheet opens. I do not have duplicate excel files on the XP machine. This will happen to not all Excel files, just a large hand full of them. This will even happen after a fresh reboot, open My Documents and then click on an Excel file. Thanks Paul |
Excel Cannot Open File With Same Name Meaning
One of those design decisions is that external references into open workbooks never show the drive-directory path, so there'd be ambiguity if Excel had multiple files with the same base filename open at the same time. Repeat: Excel has had this limitation for over 30 years, and at this point it's unlikely MSFT has any plans to address this. When the Excel file is corrupted, not compatible with the Excel version, infected by the virus, or received by email are the common cause of 'Excel cannot open the file because the file format or file extension is not valid' problem. Any of these problems appear, you could not open an XLSX file. Was This Page Helpful? Keep pressing enter to get past the errors. Then when word finally opens, click on file Edit links to Files Break all links that have Excel.Sheet.12 as the type. American pie reunion free download. I am trying to open an Excel file using version 2007 that we have receive from a sister company. When i open it i get the below message. NAME CONFLICT: Name cannot be the same as built-in name. Old Name: Printarea. New Name: (leaves area blank for you to fill in.) no matter what i type in the name or it OK or Cancel the file never opens using.
