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Multiple users editing Excel spreadsheet and "excel file is corrupt" error seems to appear every few weeks...

Asked by Swamp_Thing in Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software, Spreadsheet Software

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There is an Excel spreadsheet located in a shared folder on my work's network.  The spreadsheet is used to record the hours that multiple engineers work on.  The first worksheet is called "Summary" and lists all the project names with how many hours total the engineers have been working on them.  Every worksheet after that is labeled with the engineer's name and their individual hours works on certain projects.  

Each engineer will open this excel file periodically and record the number of hours that they have worked by editing their own workbook.  About 2 weeks ago I got a call that "the project hours spreadsheet is corrupt" and sure enough it was.  I ended up having to restore the file from one of our backup tapes and just now I got another call saying that the spreadsheet is corrupt again...

I didn't create the file and I honestly think that this could be done in a cleaner way but that has yet to be discussed...  Can anyone think of a better way to do this?  I don't like to use Excel for big things like this but I know it can handle it.  The only thing that I could think of was to maybe have each user have their own spreadsheet where they record their hours (seperate files).  Then, a "Summary" worksheet is kept (a seperate file also) and is setup to grab data from each user's spreadsheet.  What do you think?Start Free Trial
 
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