Actually I double checked a few times (even before) to
make sure that the read-only attribute is NOT checked. It
seems that the open method in Javascript is the key here!

Do you have any suggestions? Thanks.


-----Original Message-----
We are going in circles here. As I said, it sounds like
you need to change
the file attribute of the file before you try to open it.
This isn't done
with the Open command. You can also change
IgnoreReadOnlyRecommended to
True, but I doubt this is the source since you have not
been prompted.

Select the file in windows explorer and look at
properties - I suggest that
the readonly property will be set. This is what you
need to change.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"Derek" wrote in
message
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Based on syntax

expression.Open(FileName, UpdateLinks, ReadOnly, Format,
Password, WriteResPassword, IgnoreReadOnlyRecommended,
Origin, Delimiter, Editable, Notify, Converter,
AddToMRU)

I wrote in JavaScript.

e.Workbooks.Open(myFile, null, false, null, null, null,
true)

also i tried all kinds of combinations of true and false
in the entries in case the method was written wrong by
microsoft. It was always able to open excel files, but
always in read-only: saw (Read Only) above the MenuBar
on
the upper left corner when an excel file is opened.





-----Original Message-----
I am talking about changing the file attribute
readonly.
In VBA this would
be done using setattr

SetAttr "TESTFILE", vbNormal

Your open command gives the option of ignoring
readonly
recommended which
is Excel's method of making a file readonly.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"Derek Richards" wrote in
message
. com...
Oops! I meant how to change excel file's readonly
attribute using file
IO. Any details? Thanks.


"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
...
I suspect the file's readonly attribute is set -
you
will need to
change
that using file io.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

Derek Richards wrote in
message

om...
The following syntax is what I found under the
Help
in Excel's VBA
Editor (you may refer to it for the details of
each
parameter). i
specified to open in Write
mode (Read Only is false), it doesn't do the way
as
I wished to open
in
Write mode. Instead, still saw (Read Only) above
the MenuBar on the
upper
left corner when an excel file is opened.


Syntax

expression.Open(FileName, UpdateLinks, ReadOnly,
Format, Password,
WriteResPassword, IgnoreReadOnlyRecommended,
Origin, Delimiter,
Editable, Notify, Converter, AddToMRU)


Here I care nothing else but opening a file in
Read
& Write. How to
specify the parameters to open in Read & Write in
javascript given the
syntax?

Thanks very much.


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