if you right click on the icon for the file and navigate to properties there
is a box to check/uncheck for read only
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"Anne Troy" wrote:

Sounds like a sharing issue to me, which would be on the server/PC, not an
Excel setting.
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Hope it helps!
Anne Troy
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"rdbeale" wrote in message
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When I try to copy a file I'm told it can't be copied because it is a read
only file. I go to Tools - Options-Security - and there is a box there
for
Read Only it is not checked so I can't uncheck read only. How do you
change
a file from Read Only to not Read Only????
Thanks in advance.