RE: Excel to XY

[Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx]

Title: RE: Excel to XY





Judith, I have often run across this sort of thing and it can be caused by:


1. (this is the most common reason) The file is also being displayed by a program set to "lock files while editing" (or some similar concept).

2. (this one is really weird...and I've only seen this with Microsquish programs) If you, say, open a file with Excel, then close the file without closing the program...Excel can sometimes (but, oddly, not every time) still have a "hold" of some kind on the file. It can also sometimes prevent you from deleting a directory, for the same reason. Try redirecting Excel's (or any suspect program) "focus" by browsing to another directory and opening and closing a file.

P.S. Ignore all those people who are going to say I'm crazy and give it a try anyway.


Brian Henderson

Print Composition Dept.

Mitchell Repair Information Co.

San Diego, CA


brian.henderson@xxxxxxxx

(858) 391-5000 - x.6533






-----Original Message-----

From: Judith Davidsen [mailto:jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:42 PM

To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx

Subject: Excel to XY




A couple of years back, this list helped me figure out how

to convert Excel files to Xywrite, and for a while things

went swimmingly.


On the past three Excel files that I received from the same

client, however, I get "sharing violation" on the command

line in Xy if I try to save or store after editing a

converted file. All xywrite allows me to do is abort, which

of course leaves me with an unedited file. I can work around

this by copying the unedited file into a new file and

editing there, but this gets kinda tedious when you're

working with 40-50 files.


Anybody got any idea what I or the sender might be doing

wrong? 


I'm using Xydos 4.018 with Win98 and Excel97 SR-1. The

sender is using the Excel in Office Suite 97 (seems to me we

are both using the same version of Excel and calling it by

its different names). Both of us swear we have not changed

anything in any of the pertinent programs.


Thanks for your help.

Judith Davidsen