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Unable to open Excel workbooks in Excel from SharePoint
Hi everyone I am having several issues with opening Excel files: Can open Excel in Browser, but when selecting 'Open in Excel', I get the message 'an unexpected error occurs', OR the workboo...
From what I experienced before, the file permissions on SharePoint was read only so you won't be able to edit the file unless you download the file and edit it on your own local Hard Drive. Online file permissions won't allow you to edit the file as if you make changes it will affect the online file on sharepount. Contact the filder owner and ask them to check your permission on the share point for any specific file.
Thank you
Dav,
Deleted, thanks for your reply. All users have got edit access, not read only. I am the site collection administrator and even I am getting the same issue!
