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TimC
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I'm getting the really helpful message Document not saved when I try to save a workbook (23MB size) in Excel 2010. I've looked on Google for help, and have tried saving the file under a different name, on a different drive etc to no avail. I had saved it earlier this morning without a problem, but it's not saving now. 

Any thoughts?

I also tried to find a customisable alerts file (whatever that is) on the Microsoft Office web-site without success.

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Hi Tim,

Try saving to your desktop as a .xlsb file.

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Just to share a similar experience from a colleague of mine a couple of years back.

She had no problem saving the file until she renamed it. She was then unable to save the file and there was no error message whatsoever.

I managed to trace the issue to the length of the file path+name exceeding the 255 characters limit under Windows. All she did was added one extra character to the file name e.g. XXXX9 to XXXX10 and that was the problem.

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Thanks for your suggestions. In the end I had to bite the bullet, and lose a couple of hours work.

I now remember that in the morning I had a glitch early on in the morning, and looking at the Event Viewer later I found the following "An unexpected error has occurred. AutoRecover has been disabled for this session of Excel".

Whether I could have changed anything in Excel options I don't know. Still, today is another day.

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