Luckily we cover how to remove read only from excel in every way possible in this article. If you're the owner of the file, this is a fairly simple process Click the ‘edit anyway’ button to remove the ‘read only’ settings. The author of an excel 2016 workbook may protect the sheet and lock the cells so that users only can open and read the workbook but can’t be able to make changes to it Once the reader attempts to change the worksheet, he will be prompted with the warning message shown below.
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