Ms Excel Your Changes Could Not Be Saved Sharing Violation. Excel file is not permitted to get indexed - In most cases, this particular issue occurs in situations where the Excel file is located inside a folder that isn't configured to allow the files inside to get indexed. Consequently, users can't save changes to some of their Excel spreadsheet files when that issue arises.
For information about creating and refreshing extracts, see On the computer running Tableau Server, open a command prompt as an administrator. Subsequently, when trying to save Excel files I get: 'The document was saved successfully, but Excel cannot re-open it because of a sharing violation'. Your changes could not be saved to '[file name here]' because of a sharing violation.
Try saving to a different file After closing REP.
Save changes to the Excel file, then refresh the extract in Tableau Desktop to pull in new data.
Please close the document and try to open it again. Or "Your changes could not be saved to ' FileName ' because of a sharing violation. Every new revision of any file must be saved with a different name.