Read only Scare

[kevs]

You know what's weird?

When using an excel list as a database to merge with a word document, and
then want to look at this Excel list to see what's going on, I open it up,
and it comes up as a read only document.


OS 10.3.4
Office 2004

 

[JE McGimpsey]

You know what's weird?

When using an excel list as a database to merge with a word document, and
then want to look at this Excel list to see what's going on, I open it up,
and it comes up as a read only document.

It doesn't seem weird to me. When Word opens an Excel workbook for use
as a merge source, it puts a file lock on the workbook to prevent
corruption of the merge. That lock prevents anyone from opening the file
and deleting or modifying the merge fields.

 

[kevs]

It doesn't seem weird to me. When Word opens an Excel workbook for use
as a merge source, it puts a file lock on the workbook to prevent
corruption of the merge. That lock prevents anyone from opening the file
and deleting or modifying the merge fields.

Thanks why your are JE! Thanks.

OS 10.3.4
Office 2004