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To manually open an excel file as read-only I usually use excel /r "filename" on the command line, or just click file, open, open as read only from excel.
If I insert a hyperlink to an excel file in word, then clicking on it opens the excel file.
Is there anyway to insert a modified hyperlink in word that, when clicking it, would open the excel document as read-only?
2Are you familiar with VBA at all? This can be accomplished with a VBA macro, but I'm not sure it can be just with a modified hyperlink. – Ben Sampica – 2015-07-17T13:14:00.057
possible duplicate of Excel (2010) HYPERLINK: how to call a file with command line arguments and spaces in the path?
– Dave – 2015-07-17T13:15:52.137@BenSampica I am familiar with VBA though only really with Excel.Not sure how to implement something like this is Word. – Eliyahu – 2015-07-20T14:15:28.483