Change the 'Read-Only' Access for Non-Shared Files

[Guest]

Hi

Occassionally Excel 2000 crashes a file I've been working on and if I try to re-open the file it tells me that I've got it open and displays the "Read-Only, Notify, Cancel" dialog box

Do you know if it's possible to kick-off the "person" (ie. me!) who has the non-shared workbook open and give yourself write access

Thanks heaps

SuperJas.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Debra Dalgleish has one suggestion at:
http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#ReadOnly

Q. All of a sudden a number of my Excel 2000 files have become "read-only".

A. Clear out c:\windows\temp directory on the machine that houses the files,
then reboot.

(if your file is on a server, you may need to reboot that, too.)