Norton is likely causing your problem.
Replace Norton with the free AVG
http://free.grisoft.com/ or Avast
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html, and Windows Firewall and Windows
Defender. Disabling Norton is not enough. You need to completely uninstall
it. If it doesn't solve the problem, get rid of Norton anyway. Norton is
known to cause many problems in Vista which don’t always appear immediately.
Download and run the Norton Removal Tool.
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...05033108162039
It's called "360" because Symantec's goal is complete ownership of your
computer, and with even less communication about what it's trying to do or
ways to configure it than ever before (which would only interfere with its
goal.) That, along with Symantec's famous technical support, makes Norton
360 a disaster that I would only install on Granny's computer if she was
going to disinherit me.
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"confounded" <confounded@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
>I have the identical problem, starting a week ago. I have 2007 Office Home
> and Student 2007, which I tried reloading today, as the problem seems
> limited
> to Excel files. Same problem. (However, when I paste a spreadsheet into a
> Word document, I cannot save that either.)
>
> I have Norton Security, but I have tried turning it off.
>
> I had not updated Office since installing it three months ago, so I
> updated
> it today, including SP1. Still no success.
>
> I cannot open the excel files from a folder, including by right-clicking
> and
> clicking on Open. Nor can I open them under recent documents. The only way
> to
> open them is by opening Excel, clicking on File>>Open and then opening a
> file
> in a file folder.
>
> Any suggestions welcomed.
>
> "Bob" wrote:
> Quote:
>> What firewall, anti-virus application or security suite is installed?
>> There
>> are some that cause problems which do not appear immediately.
>> --
>> *Report back, please*
>>
>> How to ask a question
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
>> http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm
>> http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm
>> Quote:
>> >> "stomped" <stomped@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> news:A0F9BED3-67CB-4A1C-8905-A7A6BA144231@xxxxxx
>> >>>I don't know if I'm in the right forum, but hopefully someone can help
>> >>>me.
>> >>>
>> >>> When I go to my documents and try to open an Excel file, I get a
>> >>> message
>> >>> saying that Windows can't find the file in that folder, to try and
>> >>> retype the
>> >>> name again. I have other documents in that same folder which I can
>> >>> open
>> >>> without a problem.
>> >>>
>> >>> If I open the Excel application and go to the place showing the files
>> >>> last
>> >>> opened, I can open the files listed there; however, I can't open
>> >>> those
>> >>> same
>> >>> files from the "documents" folder. If I do a file search, the files
>> >>> show as
>> >>> being in the "documents" folder, but windows does not seem to
>> >>> recognize
>> >>> them.
>> >>> This only happens with Excel files. If I create a new Excel file, I
>> >>> can
>> >>> open it by opening the application and going to the place that shows
>> >>> the
>> >>> last
>> >>> documents opened, but can not open it from the "documents" folder. I
>> >>> tried
>> >>> putting the Excel files in a different folder, but can't open them
>> >>> still.
>> >>>
>> >>> I dragged and dropped the files from the "documents" folder, put them
>> >>> in
>> >>> a
>> >>> flash drive and was able to open them in another computer.
>> >>>
>> >>> If I receive an Excel file over the Internet, I can't open it either.
>> >>> I
>> >>> tried restoring my system, but this did not work either.
>> >>>
>> >>> I'll greatly appreciate any help that I can get.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>