topic Re: Shared excel file often locked in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Shared-excel-file-often-locked/m-p/33565#M7904 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>Since you have not gotten an answer, you may want to ask this question in the <A href="https://forums.netapp.com/community/support" target="_blank">NetApp Support Community.</A>&nbsp; The current customers, partners and internal Subject Matter Experts are addressing technical product questions there.</P><P>Mike</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:27:52 GMT crocker 2012-03-05T23:27:52Z Shared excel file often locked https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Shared-excel-file-often-locked/m-p/33561#M7903 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi!</P><P></P><P>I don´t know if this is a ONTAP problem or a Windows problem.</P><P>But a excel file that´s located on a vfiler is in shared state.</P><P></P><P>It´s about 20-30 users accessing this file per day.</P><P>Often the file gets locked, and I can go in and do 'lock status' and 'lock break', that solves the issue.</P><P></P><P>But the group using these excel files are starting to get irritated that the file often gets locked.</P><P>Is there a setting that facilitates this on the controller.. or does anyone know if there something in MS Office settings?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:33:31 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Shared-excel-file-often-locked/m-p/33561#M7903 connoisseur 2025-06-05T06:33:31Z Re: Shared excel file often locked https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Shared-excel-file-often-locked/m-p/33565#M7904 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>Since you have not gotten an answer, you may want to ask this question in the <A href="https://forums.netapp.com/community/support" target="_blank">NetApp Support Community.</A>&nbsp; The current customers, partners and internal Subject Matter Experts are addressing technical product questions there.</P><P>Mike</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:27:52 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Shared-excel-file-often-locked/m-p/33565#M7904 crocker 2012-03-05T23:27:52Z