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 ...

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.

If the file opens in read-only mode, you may still make changes and use the "Save As" command to save the file to a new name. Save the file in the Excel 2003 or 2007 format, but with a different name.

Use Read-Only Mode in Excel The steps are virtually the same in Excel. Click the File menu, select Info, click the Protect Workbook button, and select Always Open Read-Only .

If two or more cells in Excel share the same formatting, they use only one formatting combination. If different formatting is used for different cells, each cell uses a different formatting ...

Microsoft Excel spreadsheets can contain up to 16,384 new columns and 1,048,576 rows. While the exact nature of the issue isn't known, it's believed the limits are to blame.

Scientists who use Excel to track their research had to rename 27 genes in early August because the program continuously got confused. Each of the thousands of human genes has an alphanumeric code ...