File gets locked by users that only have permission to read.

**Odmjun** · 02-11-2013, 08:31 AM

Hello

A user in our company has a document on a shared drive in our domain. It's using the protect feature which means that you'll have to type username/password before you're allowed to edit the document. The problem is that users who only want to view the document will cause it to lock, and then you can't edit it before they close it.

I thought that sharing the document would solve this issue, but when I tried to it said that Visual Basic features would not work which basically makes the document useless so that's not an option

And so now I am out of ideas, tried to Google but I was unsuccessful.

Help!

**TMS** · 02-11-2013, 08:44 AM

You need two passwords ... a password to open and a password to modify ... and, ideally, recommend opening as "read only".

If you provide the password to open but not the password to modify (click on Read Only), it will open in read only mode.

Regards, TMS