How to open Word document on a shared drive, in read-only mode, every time?
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Is there a way in Office 2010 Pro, to always open the document as read-only when I open it? At work we store documents on a shared drive. The problem is, quite often someone may need to edit it, but I have it open because I am viewing it. So they need to ask me to close it, just so they can edit it.
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While Saving as... Choose under Tools, General Options and check the Read-only recommended checkbox. This will not put the document always in read-only but when it is opened, the user is prompted to answer with which state to open the document. This…
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