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I keep getting a message when I try to make any changes to a shared excel file. The message says, " You are no longer connected to this file. ANother user may have removed you from it, or saved over it." I have saved changes in this file before this and have started facing this issue lately. Please help and guide in resolving it in a way so that I am able to make changes in this shared file the same way as before and as my other team mates are able to.
Thanks
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I had this same thing happen to me when trying to open an Excel file in Sharepoint. It seemed very random on whether this would happen. After hours of trial and error, I found that if I tried to open the Excel file by double clicking it, I would receive that error when trying to save. However if I opened the file by single clicking it, or right clicking and selecting "Open in App", I had no difficulty saving. This seems very strange to me that this would matter, especially because when I double click, it does not open two Excel windows/files.
Hope this is help to anyone out there. It was super frustrating trying to locate the malfunction.
Hi @Kaur, Jaspreet ,
How did you open the file? Did you open the Workbook from OneDrive?
Did this problem only appear in specific file?
Is this a shared file from other user?
First try to check if the account is login successfully, you can sign out and re-sign in.
Then check if the file is expired.
You can also refer to this support article and check if you can get any information from it:
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