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Files Tagged (ReadOnly) Upon Opening

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by robert.marsh

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Situation arose on 18 May where any "Office"-related file (Excel, Word, PwrPnt) is marked (ReadOnly)- file in use by "(the user currently opening the file)". Is this a permissions glitch, something wrong with User Authorization, or what? I've seenthis problem before on another system but i never knew how they addressed it.

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by itnetman

Sorry think you may be on a looser here. As far as i am aware only one person can write to file at anyone time all others have read until person closes file. Interested if you find a solution to this one.

by gigelul

I have the same problem in network enviroment:
An excel file also with shared options enabled apear to be read only. The problem was that an user with StarOffice5.2 opened this files and the rest of users with MS Office received this "read only" and a notification with own name in list of the currently user.
If this is the situation (that you have two or more compatible app) check in server manager which files are open and who open these files.

by sdrapeau

May I ask for more info?

What version of Office and OS are you using?

I have the same problem using OFF97 under XP Home or Pro. Whenever a user tries to open a file from Explorer, it opens in read only mode saying it is already open by himself. When using the Open command in Word, Excel... it works fine.

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