I have a workbook called Book1.xlsx in my XLSTART folder. Is there a way to tell excel that I want it to always open this file as readonly unless I specify otherwise? There are two reasons I want this.
First, I don't want to accidentally overwrite the setup that I have in the file. Second, whenever I open additional instances of excel after the first instance, I get a prompt telling me that Book1.xlsx is locked for editing.
I'm using excel 2010.
Thanks
*.xltx
. This will flag it as a template, which Excel will automatically make a copy of in memory before opening.