Linked file always opens as read-only

In Excel2003, I have a spreadsheet with a column of hyperlinks, each going to
a different word document. None of them are read-only files, but whenever I
click the links to open them from Excel, they always open as read-only. Is
there a way to stop this from happening? I want to edit the files once I open
them.

Any chance that you're linking to files on a network share that you only have
ReadOnly access to?

Any chance that the file is in use? (Being edited by another person???)

Brian999 wrote:
>
> In Excel2003, I have a spreadsheet with a column of hyperlinks, each going to
> a different word document. None of them are read-only files, but whenever I
> click the links to open them from Excel, they always open as read-only. Is
> there a way to stop this from happening? I want to edit the files once I open
> them.

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Dave Peterson

On a few occasions, yes, but I always get a message informing me that is the
case. 98-99% of the time, this is not the problem.

The weirdest part is that if I copy the cells to the clipboard and paste it
into Word as a table, all the links work fine. Unfortunately, due to other
concerns, that is not a good long-term solution.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

> Any chance that you're linking to files on a network share that you only have
> ReadOnly access to?
>
> Any chance that the file is in use? (Being edited by another person???)
>
> Brian999 wrote:
> >
> > In Excel2003, I have a spreadsheet with a column of hyperlinks, each going to
> > a different word document. None of them are read-only files, but whenever I
> > click the links to open them from Excel, they always open as read-only. Is
> > there a way to stop this from happening? I want to edit the files once I open
> > them.
>
> --
>
> Dave Peterson
>

I don't have another guess.

Maybe a post in one of the MSWord newsgroups would help.

Brian999 wrote:
>
> On a few occasions, yes, but I always get a message informing me that is the
> case. 98-99% of the time, this is not the problem.
>
> The weirdest part is that if I copy the cells to the clipboard and paste it
> into Word as a table, all the links work fine. Unfortunately, due to other
> concerns, that is not a good long-term solution.
>
> "Dave Peterson" wrote:
>
> > Any chance that you're linking to files on a network share that you only have
> > ReadOnly access to?
> >
> > Any chance that the file is in use? (Being edited by another person???)
> >
> > Brian999 wrote:
> > >
> > > In Excel2003, I have a spreadsheet with a column of hyperlinks, each going to
> > > a different word document. None of them are read-only files, but whenever I
> > > click the links to open them from Excel, they always open as read-only. Is
> > > there a way to stop this from happening? I want to edit the files once I open
> > > them.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Dave Peterson
> >

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Dave Peterson