Shared workbooks that are stored on Office Web server open as read-only in Excel 2000

When you open an Excel workbook, you receive the following message:
where <File name> is the name of the file you are opening, and <User name> is the name of the user who currently has full edit control (Read-Write) of the file.

When you click a hyperlink on your Office Server Extensions home page to open an Excel workbook, you receive the following message:

This problem will occur then the following conditions are true:

• The file is a shared workbook.
• The workbook is stored on a Web server that is running the Office Server Extensions.
• Another user currently has the workbook open.

To work around this issue, save your shared workbook to a network drive, and not an Office Server Extended Web Server.

Shared workbooks do not work as expected on Web servers; they behave the same as "unshared" workbooks. That is to say, at any given time only one user will be able to open the workbook for editing (Read-Write), all other users can only open the file as Read-Only.

For more information about Shared Workbooks, click Microsoft Excel Help on the Help menu, type Shared Workbooks in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topic.