If you see this message in Excel and you use Google Drive to store your files, this is likely caused by Google Drive's "real time presence" for Microsoft files. Once you disable that within Google Drive, that error should go away. See below the photo for how.



  1. Click the system tray at the bottom in Windows or the menubar at the top of a Mac
  2. Click the Google Drive icon
  3. Click the gear icon
  4. Click Preferences
  5. Click the gear icon
  6. Uncheck "see if someone else is editing a Microsoft Office file"
  7. Click Save