If you open Excel files from Sharepoint, they by default open in Edit mode.<\/p>\n
This sadly means, that whenever people interact with the sheet – for instance by filtering, this filtering will be saved. Extreeee<\/u>mely annoying.<\/p>\n
This may very well not be what you want. Fortunately, you can still set you Excel file to open by default in “Viewing” mode.
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As taken from here:<\/a><\/p>\n If you have a file that is sensitive to changes, you can force Microsoft Excel 365 \/ 2019\u00a0 to prompt the user to open as Read Only whenever they attempt to open the file. Here\u2019s how to enable this setting.<\/em><\/p>\n Taken from here<\/a>:<\/p>\n If you want specific Excel workbooks to open in the view mode, open the said workbook in the browser, go to File<\/b>>Info, <\/b>click Protect<\/b> Workbook<\/b>.<\/em><\/p>\n Another way is to right-click the file in the library and select Preview<\/b>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you open Excel files from Sharepoint, they by default open in Edit mode. This sadly means, that whenever people interact with the sheet – for instance by filtering, this filtering will be saved. Extreeeemely annoying. This may very well not be what you want. Fortunately, you can still set you Excel file to open … Continue reading “Excel – open as “ReadOnly” \/ Viewing by default”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40,13],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guides","tag-office","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
If you open Excel files in the browser:<\/h2>\n