Thanks Henry.
However, my problem is for two user accounts on the same computer, not over
the network. I just made a small test again, where I created a new file and
saved and closed it as user A. Then I switched to user B and opened the
file, and it was opened as Read-only.
In fact, I realise now that it's not really an excel problem, as I just
noticed the same problem appears when I save a word document as user A. It
then becomes read-only for user B. It seems like whatever user A creates in
the Shared Documents folder can only be opened read-only by user B. However,
documents saved by user B can be opened normally by user A.
Note that user A is an admin account.

This problem appeared recently, and I don't understand why. In the past any
user could update the documents.
What could be the reason?
What do I need to do to fix it?

Rgds,



"Henry" wrote:

GeEf,

Open the file, (either user) and look in the Share File applet.
You may see that user B is still logged into the program from an earlier
session.
It sometimes happens that a user isn't logged off (when they close the
program) over a network.
Log this "ghost" user off, close the file (no need to save if read only) and
reopen.
This should clear your problem.

Henry