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I can open personal.xlsb on one computer, but not another: 'Excel cannot open the file personal.xlsb because the file format or file extension is not valid.'

October 17, 2019, 2:04 am
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Hi all.  On my desktop computer I've added a file PERSONAL.XLSB to a folder (`D:\gdrive\bin\Excel`).  I have then specified Excel to look for XLSB files in this folder on startup.  When Excel opens, Excel reads this XLSB file as desired.  I am trying to repeat this process on a second computer, but when I open Excel on that computer, it displays the error message:

> Excel cannot open the file personal.xlsb because the file format or file extension is not valid.  Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file.

Any ideas how to resolve this?

**More Info**

* Both systems are running Win 10, Excel 2013.

* I've tried all the suggestions here, namely:

> Navigate to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Protected View and uncheck all the 3 options:

--Enable Protected View for Files originating from the Internet.

--Enable Protected View for Files located in potentially unsafe locations.

--Enable Protected View for Outlook attachments.

> Also, click on Privacy Options in the left-hand pane and make sure to uncheck the 4th option Check Microsoft Office documents that are from or link to suspicious Web sites.

* I also tried these suggestions, namely:

> Clear the files from Excel startup folders from the locations mentioned below:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\XLStart (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\XLStart in case of 64-bit O/S).
C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

Thanks in advance.

 
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SUMIFS?

October 17, 2019, 11:56 pm
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Can I achieve multiple conditions with a formula of SUMIFS?

=SUMIFS($L$2:$L$302501,$A$2:$A$302501,"<>3"...?)

Please help! Thank you!

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Countifs

October 31, 2019, 3:34 am
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Hi : I am trying to calculate number of school holidays from the second worksheet (list of all school holidays) but it will be based on start (A1) and Finish (A2) date from sheet1. What I need to include is exclude Saturdays and Sundays. Is there a way I can include this in the countifs formula below. Please see the link below. Thank you in advance

https://1drv.ms/x/s!Amc8fiGpDxekhxPA4zcymCYoh4gx

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Excel Data Labels - Value from Cells

February 15, 2017, 8:38 am
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I created a chart and linked the data labels to a series of cells, as 2013 allows in Value From Cells option. I pre-select e.g. 100 data rows even though it initially contains values in 10 of them

When I reopen the workbook and add x and y value and a new label (where I left empty cells to do so) that data point 'icon' comes on to the graph, but the data label doesn't automatically populate. When I recheck the data labels, Format Data Labels, "Value from Cells" is still checked and the cell range is still correct and includes the cell with the new label.

I can select "Reset Label Text", uncheck "Value from Cells" re-check and then it appears. I Save and Close.  The issue reappears for the next new data point.

The problem exists in Excel 2013 and Excel 2016. See additional "complaints" here:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_excel-mso_other/excel-data-labels/8bbef6db-739c-4bb3-9a8d-a251ac27eeac
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_excel-mso_winother/excel-2016-chart-labels-still-do-not-appear-after/265b03d0-46e2-486e-bca9-6abbad2bebf7

Please advise.

Regards,

Mads

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Excel crashing cpustack on large spreadsheet (40mb)

October 31, 2019, 6:20 pm
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[User PC Spec]
Dell Optiplex 3050 (i5 4 core, 8gb DDR4, 500gb HDD, discrete GPU)

User imports data from SAP into Excel 2013 (15.0.4569.1506) by copy/paste.
User must change entire columns formatting. User uses autocorrect fix fix data.
Up to 10 cells selected, autocorrect balloon tip next to cell is used.

Excel will occasionally process the entire selection in <1sec. In other cases (reproducible) it will exhibit the following behaviour:
Change one cell (autocorrect)
pause > 2 sec
change another cell
change another cell
pause >5 sec
change another cell
hard lock (unrecoverable)

At this hardlock point, excel can be using up to 600MB of RAM. More Likely averaging 380Mb
I generated a crashdump from the frozen process Excel.exe via task manager.

I reproduced the fault on another machine (Dell Presicion 5520, i7, 32gb DDR4, Nvidia quadro p1000, 512gb nvme m.2 SSD)
In WinDBG (x64) I get the following - I do not know where the fault lies and my efforts to find the cause are subsequently postede below.   I am using the following symbols .sympath srv*https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols

************* Path validation summary **************
Response                         Time (ms)     Location
Deferred                                       https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
0:000> !analyze -v
*******************************************************************************
*                                                                            *
*                        Exception Analysis                                   *
*                                                                            *
*******************************************************************************


KEY_VALUES_STRING: 1

    Key  : CLR.Engine
    Value: MSCORWKS

    Key  : CLR.Version
    Value: 2.0.50727.8806

    Key  : Timeline.OS.Boot.DeltaSec
    Value: 540463

    Key  : Timeline.Process.Start.DeltaSec
    Value: 142


PROCESSES_ANALYSIS: 1

SERVICE_ANALYSIS: 1

STACKHASH_ANALYSIS: 1

TIMELINE_ANALYSIS: 1

Timeline: !analyze.Start
    Name: <blank>
    Time: 2019-11-01T01:08:55.506Z
    Diff: 170726506 mSec

Timeline: Dump.Current
    Name: <blank>
    Time: 2019-10-30T01:43:29.0Z
    Diff: 0 mSec

Timeline: Process.Start
    Name: <blank>
    Time: 2019-10-30T01:41:07.0Z
    Diff: 142000 mSec

Timeline: OS.Boot
    Name: <blank>
    Time: 2019-10-23T19:35:46.0Z
    Diff: 540463000 mSec


DUMP_CLASS: 2

DUMP_QUALIFIER: 400

FAULTING_IP: 
+0
00000000`00000000 ??              ???

EXCEPTION_RECORD:  (.exr -1)
ExceptionAddress: 0000000000000000
   ExceptionCode: 80000003 (Break instruction exception)
  ExceptionFlags: 00000000
NumberParameters: 0

FAULTING_THREAD:  00002c40

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  BREAKPOINT_NOSOS

PROCESS_NAME:  EXCEL.EXE

ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0x80000003 - {EXCEPTION}  Breakpoint  A breakpoint has been reached.

EXCEPTION_CODE: (HRESULT) 0x80000003 (2147483651) - One or more arguments are invalid

EXCEPTION_CODE_STR:  80000003

WATSON_BKT_PROCSTAMP:  5d78b59c

WATSON_BKT_PROCVER:  15.0.5179.1000

PROCESS_VER_PRODUCT:  Microsoft Office 2013

WATSON_BKT_MODULE:  unknown

WATSON_BKT_MODVER:  0.0.0.0

WATSON_BKT_MODOFFSET:  0

WATSON_BKT_MODSTAMP:  bbbbbbb4

BUILD_VERSION_STRING:  10.0.14393.2430 (rs1_release_inmarket_aim.180806-1810)

MODLIST_WITH_TSCHKSUM_HASH:  b5c966aa3e2a47504e9df3e33444b1fcbf88e31a

MODLIST_SHA1_HASH:  f2e130a8ca7ffc36fde03a720eded22b4f8d6dad

NTGLOBALFLAG:  0

APPLICATION_VERIFIER_FLAGS:  0

PRODUCT_TYPE:  1

SUITE_MASK:  272

DUMP_FLAGS:  8000c07

DUMP_TYPE:  3

MISSING_CLR_SYMBOL: 0

ANALYSIS_SESSION_HOST:  PNZLCHCAI454474

ANALYSIS_SESSION_TIME:  11-01-2019 14:08:55.0506

ANALYSIS_VERSION: 10.0.18362.1 amd64fre

MANAGED_CODE: 1

MANAGED_ENGINE_MODULE:  mscorwks

THREAD_ATTRIBUTES: 
OS_LOCALE:  ENU

ADDITIONAL_DEBUG_TEXT:  SOS.DLL is not loaded for managed code. Analysis might be incomplete

BUGCHECK_STR:  BREAKPOINT_NOSOS

PRIMARY_PROBLEM_CLASS:  BREAKPOINT

PROBLEM_CLASSES: 

    ID:     [0n321]
    Type:   [@APPLICATION_FAULT_STRING]
    Class:  Primary
    Scope:  DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID (Failure Bucket ID prefix)
            BUCKET_ID
    Name:   Omit
    Data:   Add
            String: [BREAKPOINT]
    PID:    [Unspecified]
    TID:    [Unspecified]
    Frame:  [0]

    ID:     [0n251]
    Type:   [NOSOS]
    Class:  Addendum
    Scope:  DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID (Failure Bucket ID prefix)
            BUCKET_ID
    Name:   Add
    Data:   Omit
    PID:    [Unspecified]
    TID:    [Unspecified]
    Frame:  [0]

LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER:  from 000000005f6220a1 to 000000005f62223c

STACK_TEXT:  
00000000`01e3ef68 00000000`5f6220a1 : 00000023`76f4edac 00000000`5f5c0023 00000000`01f3aa48 00000000`01f3afd8 : wow64cpu!CpupSyscallStub+0xc
00000000`01e3ef70 00000000`5f5dbf51 : 00000000`020b2d08 00000000`01e3f070 0000cda4`71e85404 00000000`01e3f040 : wow64cpu!Thunk0ArgReloadState+0x5
00000000`01e3f020 00000000`5f5ccb60 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`01e3f0d0 00000000`020b2d08 00000000`00000000 : wow64!RunCpuSimulation+0xf311
00000000`01e3f0a0 00007ff8`1b383031 : 00000000`00300128 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000003 00000000`01c26000 : wow64!Wow64LdrpInitialize+0x120
00000000`01e3f350 00007ff8`1b3b782a : 00000000`00000000 00007ff8`1b379989 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000001 : ntdll!LdrpInitializeProcess+0x1551
00000000`01e3f750 00007ff8`1b36832e : 00000000`01e3f820 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`01c26000 : ntdll!_LdrpInitialize+0x4f4a6
00000000`01e3f7d0 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : ntdll!LdrInitializeThunk+0xe


THREAD_SHA1_HASH_MOD_FUNC:  a400cd3f7dac36529da42c51dfe042a38cbc306e

THREAD_SHA1_HASH_MOD_FUNC_OFFSET:  1530a4486b3d8fe29ac76306621dd2824b7dfa34

THREAD_SHA1_HASH_MOD:  31cc8129c2e727f537d516c2527e18338fe11819

FOLLOWUP_IP: 
wow64cpu!CpupSyscallStub+c
00000000`5f62223c c3              ret

FAULT_INSTR_CODE:  c32ecdc3

SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX:  0

SYMBOL_NAME:  wow64cpu!CpupSyscallStub+c

FOLLOWUP_NAME:  MachineOwner

MODULE_NAME: wow64cpu

IMAGE_NAME:  wow64cpu.dll

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP:  5ccd16e8

STACK_COMMAND:  dt ntdll!LdrpLastDllInitializer BaseDllName ; dt ntdll!LdrpFailureData ; ~0s; .ecxr ; kb

BUCKET_ID:  BREAKPOINT_NOSOS_wow64cpu!CpupSyscallStub+c

FAILURE_EXCEPTION_CODE:  80000003

FAILURE_IMAGE_NAME:  wow64cpu.dll

BUCKET_ID_IMAGE_STR:  wow64cpu.dll

FAILURE_MODULE_NAME:  wow64cpu

BUCKET_ID_MODULE_STR:  wow64cpu

FAILURE_FUNCTION_NAME:  CpupSyscallStub

BUCKET_ID_FUNCTION_STR:  CpupSyscallStub

BUCKET_ID_OFFSET:  c

BUCKET_ID_MODTIMEDATESTAMP:  5ccd16e8

BUCKET_ID_MODCHECKSUM:  15321

BUCKET_ID_MODVER_STR:  10.0.14393.2969

BUCKET_ID_PREFIX_STR:  BREAKPOINT_NOSOS_

FAILURE_PROBLEM_CLASS:  BREAKPOINT

FAILURE_SYMBOL_NAME:  wow64cpu.dll!CpupSyscallStub

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  BREAKPOINT_NOSOS_80000003_wow64cpu.dll!CpupSyscallStub

WATSON_STAGEONE_URL:  http://watson.microsoft.com/StageOne/EXCEL.EXE/15.0.5179.1000/5d78b59c/unknown/0.0.0.0/bbbbbbb4/80000003/00000000.htm?Retriage=1

TARGET_TIME:  2019-10-30T01:43:29.000Z

OSBUILD:  14393

OSSERVICEPACK:  2969

SERVICEPACK_NUMBER: 0

OS_REVISION: 0

OSPLATFORM_TYPE:  x64

OSNAME:  Windows 10

OSEDITION:  Windows 10 WinNt SingleUserTS

USER_LCID:  0

OSBUILD_TIMESTAMP:  2019-05-04 16:29:23

BUILDDATESTAMP_STR:  180806-1810

BUILDLAB_STR:  rs1_release_inmarket_aim

BUILDOSVER_STR:  10.0.14393.2430

ANALYSIS_SESSION_ELAPSED_TIME:  21ce

ANALYSIS_SOURCE:  UM

FAILURE_ID_HASH_STRING:  um:breakpoint_nosos_80000003_wow64cpu.dll!cpupsyscallstub

FAILURE_ID_HASH:  {5d009ffa-26a5-16a1-a09c-f0690f332ad6}

Followup:     MachineOwner
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Running an OLE application in Windows 10

October 23, 2019, 7:29 am
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Hi everyone,

  I have a OLE application that allows Excel to push sales data into an ERP called Made2Manage.  Basically the salesperson puts the data into an Excel spreadsheet and once complete, they press a 'submit' button that runs a maco which makes a call to M2MOLE.exe which places the data into the M2M application.

This process worked very well in Windows 7, but it seems to have run into rights issues in Windows 10.   The only workaround I can find is to run both Excel and M2M as Administrator, but seeing as how "run as Administrator" runs in it's own login space, the users can't load/save files on any shared drives.

Is there a way to find out where the rights issues are and permit this process to flow as it did in Windows 7?  Since my users can load or save files, the 'run as Administrator' option is a no-go.

Thanks in advance.

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Multi user open excel on network drive will not prompt "read only" message

November 1, 2019, 12:40 am
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Hi all,

Our company upgrade PCs from win7 to win10 recently, but we found that excel issue below.

When User A open excel on network drive and edit something then click save, but it will prompt "The file "XXX.xls" may have been changed by another user since you last saved it.  In that case, what do you want to do?  Save a copy or Overwrite Changes?"

And we found that User B can open that excel directly instead of "file in use" when that excel already opened by User A.

Anyone can advise? 

Thank you in advance.

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auto calculate based on field data, name and date

November 1, 2019, 12:43 am
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hi there is there a formula or macro available that could help auto populate / calculate PBD (pay back day taken) within the "Pay Back" tab based on the data within tab roster 2020? ideally we would want the dates and name of person to be listed.

names are listed column a - row 21 - 29

date ranges are listed (per cell) and grouped by month from Column e - onwards

happy to attach the working copy if this helps



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Integrate Excel survey with Office products for Automated Reporting

November 1, 2019, 8:41 am
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Hi All,

I have a simple quantitative survey (4 column, 10 rows) that I'll send to about 100 of my clients. Hence I don't think I need a proper Access DB.

I would like to know which would be the best approach to automate the process of gathering data and reporting.

My understanding is that the flow between office products may be:

- Survey compilation in Sharepoint/Powerapps/Infopath;

- Data analytics in Excel/Power BI;

- Automated reporting to the user that compiled the survey.

I am perfectly confident with Excel, PowerPivot, PowerBI, but I have no experience in automating data gathering and reporting to the respective client.

Want to know if someone could suggest the easiest products to use in order to reach this goal.

Thanks


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3D Maps in Excel Giving a Status Code Error 3

November 1, 2019, 10:31 am
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Hello,

A user at my company cannot access 3D Maps in Excel 2016, receiving this error message:

3D maps encountered an error while contacting Microsoft Bing mapping services. Functionality may be limited. Status Code : 3

A DirectX 10 error follows this. 

Graphics card has been updated, and all current Windows Updates have been applied. 

This is the only user to be having such a problem. 

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Conditional formating

November 1, 2019, 10:18 pm
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Hi,

I have this large amount of data, about 30k+ rows and 10 columns. I used highlight duplicate cell rules conditional formatting. I want to copy the columns separately without loosing the color.

1. I am not able to use filter by color or sort by color. Everytime i do it, excel hangs and stops responding hence crash.

2. I can not copy the single  coloumn with the color that it is highlighted with. While copying it loses the color.

Need urgent help, thanks.


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Excel 2013 drop-down menu not visible in Excel 2007

November 28, 2013, 1:29 am
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Hello,

We have received an Excel 2013 document, in this document they use drop-down menu's.
We have Excel 2007, and unfortunately we don't see this drop-down menu's.

Can it be possible that Excel 2013 uses a new function that Excel 2007 doesn't  support?
Or can this be solved.

I did check the Internet but didn't find a solution.

Kind regards, Martin van der Voort. MCP, CPTS, CPTE, MCITP Server 2008, MCTS Exchange 2007

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White Space When Printing On Excel

November 4, 2019, 4:10 am
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Im using Microsoft Version 16.29.1 on MacBook Air and on all excel files I can not get rid of the white space when printing. I have changed margins, header & footer and customised page size but I keep getting the blank space when printing A4 & A5. Any advice please??

Example of the gape when changing header and footer under Standard A5 setting:

Example when customising the A5 page size:

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Excel 2016 slow to open files on Window 10 machine when you are not an admin

July 20, 2016, 11:36 am
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We recently rolled out a small pilot group of Win10/Office 2016 (coming from Win7/Office 2010).  Using the new version of Excel on Win10 takes about 10 seconds longer to open files compared to the old version (or the new version on Win7).  It seems more evident with .xlsm files.  Here is what I tried/ruled out:

Office 16 32 vs. 64 bit behaved the same on Windows 10

Removed any links to files and cleaned up formatting, and name ranges

Copied the file locally to take the network out of the mix

Disabled all add-ins

Installed Office 16 on a Win7 machine and it was faster to open

What I discovered is that if you run Excel 2016 on a Windows 10 machine as an administrator, the file opens as expected.  Since none of our users are admins on their machines, this is going to be a huge problem.  Has anyone run into this yet?

I should also mention that the Win7 (32-bit) computers are about 3 years old and the Win10 (64-bit) computers are brand new.

Thanks!
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Working with a Pivot Table when Data Connection is Removed?

November 4, 2019, 7:56 am
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Hi all,

We have a pivot table that pulls information from a data cube. We'd like to have several users working with the spreadsheet not to have connection to the cube, but still be able to work with the current "snapshot" data on the pivot table.

However, once removing the data connection, we can no longer use filter/sort options on the pivot table and get an error stating that  the data connection has been removed.

Is there any way to keep the snapshot of the pivot table and still be able to manipulate the data as it is in-state?

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Unwanted Date Group filters less than (date)

November 4, 2019, 9:32 am
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When grouping by dates in pivot table, unwanted group filters with dates less than and greater than show up in report filters including slicers. Ex <1/1/2018 and greater than 12/31/2019. Data in pivot table does not have any dates less than 1/1/2018 or data greater than 12/31/2019. Unable to delete these filters. Appreciate someone from Microsoft answering this question as question has been posted before in community with absolutely no correct answer. 
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Formulas are updated after a query refresh

November 4, 2019, 9:20 pm
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Hi folks,

I'm experiencing an issue after performing a query refresh. I'm using Excel 2010.

Upon data entry of various customer data, I perform a query against that data for one specific customer. In that table, I store that data so that I can execute the various formulas to determine the various performance measures we track. 

Attached is the design of the sheet that contains the formulas. As you can see it is in order etc. (this goes spans down to 200 rows in order). 

When I perform the refresh, some of the formulas are updated - like some rows have been removed, without removing the rows. This is the before query state

What occurs upon data refresh

So instead of a continue sequential reference flow, the formula is updated and skips by the number of new records from the query. This always occurs at the last known result.

At the moment, I manually update the sheet to include the references that have been updated.

How do I go about preventing the update obliterating my formulas?

Many thanks,

P.S. Attachments can't be inserted as I've not been verified I've inserted a drop box link below with the intended post.

- https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a8jtz30m047duma/AABvifynwM4HwuZGKCxvGL3wa?dl=0


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Password Removal Excel 2010

June 18, 2010, 3:03 pm
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I have an spreadsheet which is password protected. Not an issue because I know the password. The issue is, when I want to send it to another person, I don't need the spreadsheet/workbook protected because the receipient will need to alter it for their use and this is being sent to many users. W/ Excel 2003 the ability to remove the password protection feature was easy, Tools>Options>Remove Protection but I cannot find that w/ Excel 2010. I have gone to File>Info and File>Options but nothing allows me to "remove" the password.

Ideas?

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Unprotect an Excel 2010 file

April 11, 2012, 12:21 pm
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I am trying to unprotect a 2010 excel file. Every time I click the review tab, the changes tab, and the unprotect sheet tab and put in my protectedpassword (twice) it changes correctly to "protect file" but I still cannot open the file without puting in the password. I have tried several times, click save and exit the file. Everytime I call up the file again it reads"unprotect file". I have this file in my dropbox on my desktop and not on my hard drive. Is this the issue?
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cannot filter, lose data in filter

October 30, 2019, 10:41 pm
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I tried to filter data about 8000+ rows in Worksheet, but not all data listed in filter drop-down list. I select the first Column and under Home and select Filter, did I miss any steps?

Please help!

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