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IainF
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

Excel file changes not being saved

Hi, I use an Excel file saved to a folder in my Dropbox. This is accessed by two colleagues both of whom use Office for Mac as do I (Office 365 in two cases, not sure if one is standalone Office fo...
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IainF
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

Hi Walter,

I'll have a look at this tomorrow with 'real data'. I'd rather not alter the file just for the sake of it.

I haven't spotted anything to suggest that the file isn't up to date but I'll look tomorrow.

Thanks for your help with this

Cheers

Iain

PS is there a way to jump straight to my own posts in the community forum?

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Walter
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6 years ago

Feel free to take your time and report back with your findings whenever you get the chance Iain!

 

As for your posts on our Community, you can navigate to your account's profile to see them directly by clicking on your avatar (or the smiley icon) on your upper right corner. 

 

Keep me posted and stay safe! 

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    IainF
    Helpful | Level 5
    6 years ago

    Hi Walter

    made some entries to the Excel file in Dropbox with Excel on my Mac.

    When I opened the file there was banner below the toolbar that said the Excel had recovered some changes and did I want to restore them. The file looked complete so I clicked no.

    Having made the entries I saved the file. There was no obvious indication that anything had happened. 

    In the title bar there is a greyed out text saying "saved to my Mac".

    I went into DropBox and looked at the version history and it seemed that the last edit time was tonight, at the time I made the changes. I opened the file in Excel for the web and the entries were there.

    So I'm not sure whether this an intermittent error, whether I've changed something or am doing things differently or what!

    Any other suggestions?

    Cheers

    Iain

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