Microsoft KB Archive/249931

= XL2000: "Save Not Completed..." Error Saving Workbook Opened Inside of Internet Explorer =

Article ID: 249931

Article Last Modified on 11/5/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q249931





SYMPTOMS
When you save your workbook, you receive the following error message:

Save not completed. File rename failed. Retry?

If you click Cancel, you receive an error message similar to the following

Your changes could not be saved to ' ', but were saved to a temporary document named ' '. Close the existing document, then open the temporary document and save it under a new name.

where  is the name of the file that you are trying to save and   is the name under which the file is saved, such as 4CCA4100.



CAUSE
This problem may occur when the following conditions are true:
 * You click a hyperlink to a Microsoft Excel workbook.

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 * The workbook is opened inside of Internet Explorer.

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 * You are running Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 on one of the following platforms:


 * Microsoft Windows 95
 * Microsoft Windows 98



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a).

To obtain SR-1/SR-1a, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

245025 OFF2000: How to Obtain and Install Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a)



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1/SR-1a.

Additional query words: XL2000 ie5 insitu in-place

Keywords: kbbug kbfix KB249931

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