Mark, have you tried protecting the worksheet? If you protect the sheet & book no one should be allowed to make changes. Colin --- "Krawec, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello the list > > One of the departments at our agency wants to put some Excel > spreadsheets on > its Intranet site but make sure people can't make changes & > then save the > edited versions back to the server. Fair enough. Problem is, > whenever > somebody clicks on a link to a spreadsheet, it opens in the > browser, they > make their changes, hit save - & overwrite the previous > version. We've > tried setting the file attributes to read-only, but then when > someone clicks > on the link & opens it, the file changes back. > > We don't get this problem with Word docs - is there something > about the way > IE opens Excel documents that's different from the way it > handles other > Office files? > > I should mention that the Intranet server is just another > machine on our > network. If you pick your way to it through Network > Neighborhood you can > map a drive to it & so on. But you can't just open, edit & > save files that > are set to read-only that way - only spreadsheets, & only if > you get to them > through a web page link. > > Anybody seen this before? Have any idea why it's happening or > how to > prevent it? > > thanks > Mark > > ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ > To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest > version: > http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub > > ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ > > You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%%
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