The ‘sharing violation’ error is commonly encountered by Excel 2007 & 2010 users while trying to save their workbooks. But recently, other Excel version users are also found reporting the sharing violation error in the Windows 7, 8.1 & Windows 10 operating system. Thus, if you are one such user, you must check this post. This article describes complete info regarding what this error is, why this error occurs, and how to fix Excel sharing violation error in no time.