dimesio wrote: > I pored through the Ubuntu forum threads linked to in the bug report, and someone else already noted that editing a file with OpenOffice seemed to cause the problem. Why no one bothered to say that in the actual bug report, I don't know. I'm going to add a comment to that effect myself. And you are right about it being that particular bug--I tested the same files in Excel 2003, and got the "disk full" message mentioned by the original poster. I don't actually get a disk full message, instead I get the following... > > Microsoft Office Excel cannot access the file .... there are several > possible reasons: > > - The file name or path does not exist > - The file is being used by another program > - The workbook you are trying to save has the same name as a > currently open workbook. Maybe in office 2007 it's the same error but just a bit more explained better.