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    How can a file be read only and shared?

    The title says most of it. Most of my users can open the workbook and work on it. For one user, it opens as read only AND shared.
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    Re: How can a file be read only and shared?

    Why couldn't it be?

    Where is the file stored? How are permissions defined? Does the one user not have "write" permission? If concurrent updates are enabled (such as in a SharePoint environment), the one user can see updates made by other users, even if the one user can't save changes.
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    Re: How can a file be read only and shared?

    You got it!

    Our IT department is overly paranoid. It turns out that nobody gets permissions for anything regardless of what job you have. You have to ask for permission for everything specifically. While this user has read permissions to our department's common directory, he does not have write permissions.

    I will have to talk to my boss about this when he gets back from vacation. We need a checklist of things to submit to our IT department when a person is hired.

    This is an administrative issue, not a technical one.

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