Excel Removing formatting by itself

ppleasebob

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I have a couple (or 60!) spreadsheets that have formatting, every now and then (about once a month) excel decides to remove all of the formatting when individual workbooks are being saved.

I have to restore the workbook from my backup tapes.

The workbooks are saved on a network, nothing fancy about them, no macros, sharing or pictures. Excel just decides to destroy my day.

It seems to come from one particular desktop, the workbook is saved then reopened for some reason and wham it's gone..
We're running pretty new PC's and XL2007.

any ideas/experience of this
 

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You might want to look into this. What I believe is happening, is that your default save option is set to Excel 4.0 or 3.0. When you save a formated 2003 sheet to these formats, you lose all the formatting that that mode would not support...conditional formating, colors, validation, all kinds of stuff. So when you save everything looks great, but when you open agian, it's all gone. Here's how to check.

1. Select Tools..options from the excel menu.
2. Click on the Transition tab.
3. See what value the "Save Excel files as:" item is set to. (Should be "Microsoft Office Excel Workbook")

HTH
Cal
 
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Cal,

Thanks, have looked and all of the failed wbooks were excel 97-2003 compatible. A lot of these get emailed to suppliers so we've suppressed the 2007 options. As it appears random, I'll post again next time it happens with more info. Thanks for looking..
bob
 
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