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Mirroring excel file content
Hello,
I have an excel file with a large amount of data that i need to make accessible to a large number of users in the office. There are also a couple of people who need to be able to edit this file to make changes. The porblem that we have at the moment is that those who only need read only access are currently locking the file from being edited if they open it 1st. I thought the solution might be to copy the data into a separate readable workbook using copy - paste special - link which i did by highlighting the entire range of rows. When i paste this into a new doc the file size becomes huge. Original doc: 639kb Linked doc: 297,503 kb Is there a more efficient way to link an entire worksheet than selecting rows? Or is there another way all together to fix the problem of read only people locking the file from the editors? Thanks |
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http://www.ozgrid.com/Excel/track-changes.htm -- Regards Dave Hawley www.ozgrid.com "bham" wrote in message ... Hello, I have an excel file with a large amount of data that i need to make accessible to a large number of users in the office. There are also a couple of people who need to be able to edit this file to make changes. The porblem that we have at the moment is that those who only need read only access are currently locking the file from being edited if they open it 1st. I thought the solution might be to copy the data into a separate readable workbook using copy - paste special - link which i did by highlighting the entire range of rows. When i paste this into a new doc the file size becomes huge. Original doc: 639kb Linked doc: 297,503 kb Is there a more efficient way to link an entire worksheet than selecting rows? Or is there another way all together to fix the problem of read only people locking the file from the editors? Thanks |
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Maybe you could talk to your IT staff and get a common network share where some
users have readonly access and others have full rights. Then the users with readonly access would be able to open the file without locking it. If that's not possible, you can give a workbook a password to open and a password to modify. You can find the option on the Tools button of the SaveAs dialog. Be aware that passwords are easy to break (for a few bucks!) and they can be shared by users. bham wrote: Hello, I have an excel file with a large amount of data that i need to make accessible to a large number of users in the office. There are also a couple of people who need to be able to edit this file to make changes. The porblem that we have at the moment is that those who only need read only access are currently locking the file from being edited if they open it 1st. I thought the solution might be to copy the data into a separate readable workbook using copy - paste special - link which i did by highlighting the entire range of rows. When i paste this into a new doc the file size becomes huge. Original doc: 639kb Linked doc: 297,503 kb Is there a more efficient way to link an entire worksheet than selecting rows? Or is there another way all together to fix the problem of read only people locking the file from the editors? Thanks -- Dave Peterson |
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