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Adding SharePoint Online site(s) to Trusted Locations in Excel 2016
Hello, When users open their files in Excel from SPO they get the yellow 'READ-ONLY' bar and are prompted to Edit Workbook. I can see why it works that way. However, I was looking to see if it wa...
Paul, not sure how to resolve this, but that's not due to unsafe location, that's to avoid unnecessary locking of the file. See here https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/office_integration__sharepoint/2015/11/12/excel-2016-opens-sharepoint-workbooks-as-read-only/. Not sure if something changes recently, at least i know nothing.
Paul, not sure how to resolve this, but that's not due to unsafe location, that's to avoid unnecessary locking of the file. See here https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/office_integration__sharepoint/2015/11/12/excel-2016-opens-sharepoint-workbooks-as-read-only/. Not sure if something changes recently, at least i know nothing.