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I share an excel file between my laptop and desktop at home (computers
and different floors). so my one excel file is open on the desk
top. then I use my laptop and forgot to close the file (the file is
saved but not closed). any way i can close it from my laptop, so I
can then reopen it on my laptop, and eventually save it on my
laptop? Ideally, I could like to also save the changes made on the
desktop and close it remotely from the laptop, but would settle for
just closing. Is a remote software the only solution, or is the a
simple windows method of doing this? thanks.

lbbss wrote:

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smarter to have a short handle which is pronouncable or at least easily
reproducible in whole or in part by a respondant and made of ascii -
common keyboard - chars. Some people don't seem to understand that, and
like to make 'cute' or imaginative handles constructed in all sorts of
juvenile ways. I suppose they would dot their 'i/s' with a heart if
they could.

> I share an excel file between my laptop and desktop at home (computers
> and different floors). so my one excel file is open on the desk
> top. then I use my laptop and forgot to close the file (the file is
> saved but not closed).

I think this means the LT & DT are on the same network and in a mutual
filesharing condition.

> any way i can close it from my laptop, so I
> can then reopen it on my laptop, and eventually save it on my
> laptop?

I think this means that the problem you are trying to describe is that
the file is inaccessible for manipulating by another computer on the
network when it is still open on the alternate computer.

> Ideally, I could like to also save the changes made on the
> desktop and close it remotely from the laptop, but would settle for
> just closing.

You are trying to 'work' a file which is open by another application on
the network without closing it with the application which has it open.
That's not going to work, as you see.

> Is a remote software the only solution, or is the a
> simple windows method of doing this?

There isn't a simple 'windows' method of doing it - manipulating a file
which is open in another computer in the network - in the
condition/manner you describe. There are a number of ways of achieving
the goals you seek, but you can't be sloppy about it as you describe.

That is, you don't get to "forgot to close the file" (iterating what you
said above) -- and then try to do something with it somewhere else on
the network.

Or, said another way, "Don't /do/ that." (that way)


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Mike Easter

lbbss wrote:
> I share an excel file between my laptop and desktop at home (computers
> and different floors). so my one excel file is open on the desk
> top. then I use my laptop and forgot to close the file (the file is
> saved but not closed). any way i can close it from my laptop, so I
> can then reopen it on my laptop, and eventually save it on my
> laptop? Ideally, I could like to also save the changes made on the
> desktop and close it remotely from the laptop, but would settle for
> just closing. Is a remote software the only solution, or is the a
> simple windows method of doing this? thanks.
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