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Can't make Excel files offline

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Name: mspain
Date: July 24, 2007 at 09:23:58 Pacific
Subject: Can't make Excel files offline
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: ?
Model/Manufacturer: Dell

Comment:

Hello all,
I have a user who has his user folder on our file server synchronized using Offline Files of Windows XP so he can work on documents at home.
He is using Office 2000. Whenever he tries to save an Excel document when working offline, he gets an error message saying the file could not be saved to the specified file name, and will instead be saved to a temp file with a random name.
If I rename the temp file to have an .xls extension, everything is there. I want to find a way to stop this from happening so the user doesn't have to rename every file he created while offline.
Any ideas as to why this is happening?
Thanks!

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Response Number 1

Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: July 24, 2007 at 10:56:34 Pacific
Subject: Can't make Excel files offline

Reply: (edit)

What is the exact error message he's receiving, and are you sure he's saving them as xls files?
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Response Number 2

Name: DerbyDad03
Date: July 24, 2007 at 11:08:32 Pacific
Subject: Can't make Excel files offline

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Long discussion on this issue at:
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread....
Maybe something there will help.

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