Microsoft KB Archive/132177

= XL7: Workbook Opened in Mail Message No Longer Shared =

PSS ID Number: 132177

Article Last Modified on 10/21/2000

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Excel for Windows 95 7.0

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This article was previously published under Q132177



SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Excel, when you send a shared workbook to another person via electronic mail, when this workbook is opened in Microsoft Excel, the workbook is opened exclusively instead of as shared.



CAUSE
This behavior occurs when you use the Send command on the File menu in Microsoft Excel to send a shared workbook to another person. If you send a shared file to another person from within Microsoft Excel, when the person opens the file from within the mail message, the file is opened exclusively, which means that no one else can open this copy of the file while the file is open on another computer.

Note that when you send a file using an electronic mail application, you are actually sending a copy of that file. That is, the file still exists on your computer, and when the person who receives the mail message opens the file, a copy of this file is opened on their computer.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, send the shared workbook directly from your electronic mail application instead of from within Microsoft Excel. For example, if you are using Microsoft Exchange, do the following to send the shared workbook TEST.XLS to another person:


 * 1) In Microsoft Exchange, compose your mail message to the person you want to send the shared workbook.
 * 2) On the Insert menu, click File.
 * 3) Click the shared Microsoft Excel workbook file you want to send, and click OK.
 * 4) Send the mail message.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

