" wrote:

WinXP Home on PC and Laptop
Excel 2002 on PC and Excel 2003 on Laptop
Home PC used to store documents.
When using laptop to retrieve Excel files over home network,
all files, when opened, are marked READ ONLY.
When those same files are pulled up on PC,
they ARE NOT read only.

Suggestions

Hi
i think that your problem is at LAN settings, goto properties - sharing (in
share folder) and give premission to read and write data.

after this it should be fixed.