You may have gotten an Excel file from someone, but you’re not able to edit it due to a strange Read-only notification. There are several ways to get around this problem, and like always, we are ...

How to Disable Read-Only in Excel. Although most Excel documents are saved so that they can be edited by anyone who opens the document, others may be saved as "read-only" so that they cannot be ...

Double-click the Excel file you want to set as read-only on the network. The file opens on the network drive. Click the "Review" tab at the top of the Excel window.