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Thread ID: 83916 2007-10-17 20:52:00 Outlook And Excel Pourhommenz (104) Press F1
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602557 2007-10-17 20:52:00 Hey all -

Don't know if anyone else knows of this problem but it's bloody annoying and I would love to find out why this is happening.

I receive a truck load of Excel documents each day. If I have a a Excel document open and try and open another one from a e-mail attachment - the box comes up with "Open or Save" I click open and it takes me to the Excel document I already have open but doesn't open the attachment. The only way to get the attch. open is to close any instances of Excel that are already there and then open it.

Any ideas???
Pourhommenz (104)
602558 2007-10-17 22:06:00 They have different names?

The one you have open, you haven't clicked on a cell?
pctek (84)
602559 2007-10-17 22:26:00 When you open an excel file from within outlook without 1st saving the file to your HDD, the file is opened and saved to a temp folder. If you go to open another excel file without 1st saving the file already opened from the temp folder you will be prompted to save the 1st before the 2nd is opened.....

make sense?...lol
SolMiester (139)
602560 2007-10-17 23:23:00 It does but with different files name I would have thought that it shouldn't matter if they are in the temp folder Pourhommenz (104)
602561 2007-10-18 01:30:00 Probably security or custom settings in Outlook to handle attachments need to be modified...Check this article (office.microsoft.com) kahawai chaser (3545)
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