Shared workbook created in Office2007 always opens as Read-Only

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Kim_N.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

We have a spreadsheet created in Office 2007 (xslx) living on a network server for my company. Users are accessing this sheet from both PCs and Macs. For the Mac users, we are all on Office 2008 accessing the server through a VPN connection.

Every time I access the sheet, though it is a shared workbook (and shows as so when it's opened), I receive a dialog box that the file is Read-Only when I open and then, of course, I'm not able to save any changes.

We have tested this same scenario with a .xls file and that doesn't seem to have the same issue. We are able to save (with some formatting loss).

Any ideas? Or have you seen this issue before?
 
K

Kim_N.

We have a spreadsheet created in Office 2007 (xslx) living on a network server for my company. Users are accessing this sheet from both PCs and Macs. For the Mac users, we are all on Office 2008 accessing the server through a VPN connection.
Every time I access the sheet, though it is a shared workbook (and shows as so when it's opened), I receive a dialog box that the file is Read-Only when I open and then, of course, I'm not able to save any changes.

We have tested this same scenario with a .xls file and that doesn't seem to have the same issue. We are able to save (with some formatting loss).

Any ideas? Or have you seen this issue before?

:: I should add that the file itself was created and shared through Office 2007.
 

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