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Excel file saving

I have two computers, both running W7 and office 2010, on one computer, when I save an excel file that I received say via email, it automatically adds "copy of" to precede the file name by default. like this: "Copy of my spread sheet.xlxs". On the other computer, excel does not add "copy of" but does add underlines between all the words in the file name and a number at the end in paranthesis like this: "my_spread_sheet_(2).xlsx"

I cannot figure out for the life of me where I can change how Excel (or Word) handles default naming of files I am "saving". A few google searches turned up book.xlt in the XLstart folder as the default template for excel but if that is the right place, I still can't find any instructions to change these settings, not to mention that file does not exist on my computer....

Arno Koster

When you download files from the internet, they will be saved in a 'downloads' folder. Some browsers such as google chrome automatically add (2) when the same file s downloaded again, and (3) / (4) etc for consequtive downloads.

I have not seen the adding of "copy of" before but that should be prevented by using "save as" functionality in excel.

jan24

Akoster is right - this is more likely to be to do with where the file has come from than to do with Excel itself. Can you give a bit more detail about where the file came from in each of your two computers?

swjtx99

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These are all mostly my own files or files from my company's network. I don't recall a specific file source as it seems to happen with all files but as an example, one of our software applications on a server sends me a report several times a day into my email. If I retrieve it from my primary comuter (outlook, double click to open in Excel 2010 do a file "save as") and save it, I get the "copy of" added, even though there's not already a file with that name in the directory I am saving it to. If a use the other computer (Webmail/outlook, double click to open in Excel 2010, file "save as") I get al lthe underlines between words of the filename and a number added to the end.

The name of the file as an attachment to the email is named something like "08-16-11 backlog report.xls" so whether I open it from Webmail or directly from outlook, the filename starts out the same. It's just when I open it in excel and do a save as that all this funny stuff starts to happen.

swjtx99

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I guess there are no settings for this?

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swjtx99

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It's not just with Excel but I was hoping it might be an "MS Office" or W7 setting.

After a lot of google searches myself, I thought I'd give it one last shot here. Looks like it really does have everything to do with the origination (source) of the file. I just don't remember having these issues in WXP....