Any chance that you're linking to files on a network share that you only have
ReadOnly access to?

Any chance that the file is in use? (Being edited by another person???)

Brian999 wrote:

In Excel2003, I have a spreadsheet with a column of hyperlinks, each going to
a different word document. None of them are read-only files, but whenever I
click the links to open them from Excel, they always open as read-only. Is
there a way to stop this from happening? I want to edit the files once I open
them.

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Dave Peterson