Excel problem pc

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Hi,
I hope somebody can help me with this. I created a new spreadsheet this morning and saved it as normal. Now when I open it, I cannot type anything into it and the mouse cannot click on anything useful. As an experiment, I also opened a new excel document and I have the same thing. It also seems that Word is the same - open a new document and keyboard will not type/mouse cannot click on anything.

Using the network, I opened this mornings spreadsheet on another pc and I was able to work on it with no problem.

What do I do?

Thanks in anticipation.

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i´m by no means an expert with excel, but the only thing i can think of is:have you tried opening the spreadsheet on the machine you created it on, have you locked the spreadsheet in any way (set a password)

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I seem only to be having a problem using it on the machine I used to create it. As far as I know I have not done anything different from normal.

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What version of Microsoft Excel have you got?

Microsoft Excel 95
Microsoft Excel 97
Microsoft Excel 2000
Microsoft Excel 2002 (Office XP)
Microsoft Excel 2003 (Office XP)

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To find out what version →

Open Microsoft Excel → Help → About Microsoft (Office) Excel

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There are a number of ways to Lock & Freeze your spreadsheets, I can help you more with some version info.

Thanks

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We have Office Excel 2003

Thanks

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Do some of these methods to see if your spreadsheet is “reclickable”.

File → Permission → Unristricted access Tick

Tools → Protection → Have a look around this menu.

Hope this helps.

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Have you done virus/trojans/adwares check? Also make sure that you have all the updates of your office 2003 from Microsoft’s website.