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my files open fine in Excel but the app renames them. Them whenever I want to save, it goes through this bs where I need to go all the way back to the original location and save over the original file. Sure it's not that bad once or twice but it happens 50 times a day! Please help!

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    Check they've not been set to read only & you have write perms in the save folder. That's the kind of behaviour you get with a template or locked file
    – Tetsujin
    May 28, 2021 at 7:34
  • Thanks man. Is there an 'everything is a template' setting in excel? The files aren't locked/readonly
    – Andy
    May 28, 2021 at 7:47
  • Also I noticed, once re-saved for a file, it doesn't happen again for that file as long as it's kept open. weird.
    – Andy
    May 28, 2021 at 7:48
  • I don't know, tbh - it just seems like it's that type of behaviour.
    – Tetsujin
    May 28, 2021 at 8:45
  • If you rename 'filename1.xlsx' to 'filename.xlsx', does it happen again?
    – harrymc
    May 28, 2021 at 9:27

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Thanks guys for the ideas!

In the end I figured there's some problem with the shell setup, so I exported then deleted the entire node:

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell

Then remapped it in Windows for the first-time open.. worked like a charm.

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