We Want to Hear From You! What Do You Want to See on the Community? Tell us here!

Forum Discussion

Jo - The Well's avatar
Jo - The Well
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Why does one of my colleagues see that her Excel file is locked for editing by her?

Hi, one of my colleagues is trying to open a spreadsheet stored in drobox using Excell, and it is saying locked for editing by her? which it is not - her other colleague is also having the same problem when he tries to open it. I can open it no problem. Any ideas? Dropbox say that it is an issue with the software (Microsoft) Thanks

3 Replies

  • Nancy's avatar
    Nancy
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    2 years ago

    Hi Jo - The Well! Welcome to our forum. 

     

    Since I understand you’ve reached our support team, can you send me your ticket number here? 

     

    Also, are your colleagues seeing the same thing if they close the file on their current browser and open it via a different one instead? 

     

    Other than that, feel free to take a look at this Microsoft thread here, as some users are reporting the same issue as you. 

     

    Let me know if that helps.

  • Jo - The Well's avatar
    Jo - The Well
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    Hi Nancy, the ticket number is: 

    ##- Please type your reply above this line -##

     

    Ticket #23449821

     

    We have still not resolved the problem unfortunately.

     

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    2 years ago

    Hi Jo - The Well, thanks for the info. Have you tried replying to the support agent for them to assist further on their end?

About Delete, edit, and organize

Solve issues with deleting, editing, and organizing files and folders in your Dropbox account with support from the Dropbox Community.

Need More Support

The Dropbox Community team is active from Monday to Friday. We try to respond to you as soon as we can, usually within 2 hours.

If you need more help you can view your support options (expected response time for an email or ticket is 24 hours), or contact us on X or Facebook.

For more info on available support options for your Dropbox plan, see this article.

If you found the answer to your question in this Community thread, please 'like' the post to say thanks and to let us know it was useful!