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From: Suzie762 on 21 May 2010 20:05
At home I have Excel 2007 student version. My boss has Excel 2007 commercial
version. Can I work at home and transfer files to my boss's computer? My
boss's computer would not open my work. Any ideas and help is appreciated.
Thanks!
From: Dave Peterson on 21 May 2010 22:04
You should be able to share files.

How did the boss try to open the file -- by double clicking on it in windows
explorer (or opening from an email) or by starting excel and then using the
equivalent of File|open?

And what happened when the boss tried and failed? Any error/warning messages?

Suzie762 wrote:
>
> At home I have Excel 2007 student version. My boss has Excel 2007 commercial
> version. Can I work at home and transfer files to my boss's computer? My
> boss's computer would not open my work. Any ideas and help is appreciated.
> Thanks!

--

Dave Peterson
From: Suzie762 on 22 May 2010 11:29
I was doing the work (not the boss), I opened Excel on his computer and
double clicked the file which I transfered with a flash drive. Can't
remember exact wording, but something like......can't find file, check
spelling and wording of document. Was is the way I saved it at home? Thanks
for your help! Very much appreciated.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

> You should be able to share files.
>
> How did the boss try to open the file -- by double clicking on it in windows
> explorer (or opening from an email) or by starting excel and then using the
> equivalent of File|open?
>
> And what happened when the boss tried and failed? Any error/warning messages?
>
> Suzie762 wrote:
> >
> > At home I have Excel 2007 student version. My boss has Excel 2007 commercial
> > version. Can I work at home and transfer files to my boss's computer? My
> > boss's computer would not open my work. Any ideas and help is appreciated.
> > Thanks!
>
> --
>
> Dave Peterson
> .
>
From: Dave Peterson on 22 May 2010 11:54
Nope.

Open excel, then hit ctrl-o to open your workbook. Personally, I'd copy that
file from the thumbdrive to the local harddrive (or network drive). I don't
think it's a good idea to work on files directly from removeable storage (but
that's not the problem).

I bet the boss had trouble opening a file on his own pc if it or its path
contains space characters.

Saved from a previous post:

Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double
clicking on the file in windows explorer:

Tools|Options|General|Uncheck "Ignore other applications"
(xl2003 menus)

or
Office Button|Excel Options|Advanced|General|Uncheck "Ignore other applications
that use DDE"
(xl2007)

--- or ---

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets some of the windows registry to
excel's factory defaults.

Suzie762 wrote:
>
> I was doing the work (not the boss), I opened Excel on his computer and
> double clicked the file which I transfered with a flash drive. Can't
> remember exact wording, but something like......can't find file, check
> spelling and wording of document. Was is the way I saved it at home? Thanks
> for your help! Very much appreciated.
>
> "Dave Peterson" wrote:
>
> > You should be able to share files.
> >
> > How did the boss try to open the file -- by double clicking on it in windows
> > explorer (or opening from an email) or by starting excel and then using the
> > equivalent of File|open?
> >
> > And what happened when the boss tried and failed? Any error/warning messages?
> >
> > Suzie762 wrote:
> > >
> > > At home I have Excel 2007 student version. My boss has Excel 2007 commercial
> > > version. Can I work at home and transfer files to my boss's computer? My
> > > boss's computer would not open my work. Any ideas and help is appreciated.
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> >
> > Dave Peterson
> > .
> >

--

Dave Peterson
From: Suzie762 on 22 May 2010 14:56
Thanks for your advice, I'l give it a try on Monday!



"Suzie762" wrote:

> At home I have Excel 2007 student version. My boss has Excel 2007 commercial
> version. Can I work at home and transfer files to my boss's computer? My
> boss's computer would not open my work. Any ideas and help is appreciated.
> Thanks!
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