Nope, it is saving as a workbook.
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Browse All TopicsI am an administrator for a small companay (75 users). We have all versions of office in use throughout the network. The most recent machines have office 2003/Windows XP installed . Suddenly, these users are no longer able to save excel files to their personal network drives. They can save other office 2003 files to this drive but not excel. Other users who have office xp or earlier do not have this problem. All office updates have been applied. Also, these 2003 users can save excel files to other network drives. Plus, they used to be able to save excel to their personal drives. No changes have been made to the server.
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You might want to make sure the personal Network drives are mapped to the user. Can they access the folder with other programs? If not, then the mapping issue might be the key. (To do this go to My Computer, right click Map Network Drive). If it already is mapped, XP has some serious permissions issues with previous versions. That might be another area.
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by: dsackerPosted on 2004-02-04 at 13:34:03ID: 10275184
Sometimes Excel will default to an previous release version whenever the "Save As" box appears. Make sure that you are saving it simply as an Excel Workbook (and not Excel 95/97, etc).
Just something to rule out.