naming a new file

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Michael Byrne

For some reason whenever I try to do a "save as" and type a name for a new
worksheet it will only accept the first letter of the file name. If I try to
name it alph.xls it will come up a.xls. any ideas. I have Office 97 on a
Windows XP machine. I never had this problem before. Thanks
 
There have been a few posts describing the same problem. I searched google and
found this:

http://google.com/[email protected]

The last post in the thread suggested an answer. (I think it has something to
do with WindowsXP). I don't think I've ever seen this option in Win98 or
WinNT.)

Copying from that post:
From: Donut Man ([email protected])
Subject: Re: excel save problem
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.excel.misc
Date: 2003-04-24 21:10:48 PST

I think I have the solution to the problem:

Excel was running in Windows 95 compatibility mode. When I disabled
compatibility mode the file name problem went away.
 
That fixed it. Thank you very much.

Dave Peterson said:
There have been a few posts describing the same problem. I searched google and
found this:

http://google.com/[email protected]

The last post in the thread suggested an answer. (I think it has something to
do with WindowsXP). I don't think I've ever seen this option in Win98 or
WinNT.)

Copying from that post:
From: Donut Man ([email protected])
Subject: Re: excel save problem
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.excel.misc
Date: 2003-04-24 21:10:48 PST

I think I have the solution to the problem:

Excel was running in Windows 95 compatibility mode. When I disabled
compatibility mode the file name problem went away.
Click to expand...
 
Thanks for posting back.

I don't recall seeing a response that it worked. (Well, I don't remember one!)
 
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