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Macbook Pro saving Excel worksheets as read only

My MacBook Pro is saving Excel worksheets as read only. It doesn't happen all the time and I've checked the permissions which for my user is read and write. How can I stop Excel saving files as read only?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on May 26, 2018 1:23 PM

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May 26, 2018 3:00 PM in response to Trigger1882

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