Right-click “My Computer,” select “Manage,” and navigate the “Shared Folders” tab to find and disconnect the open file. Keep in mind that only a network administrator with administrative privileges to the server can unlock the Excel file in this manner.
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How do I unlock an Excel file locked for editing by another user?
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- Save all your work, and then quit all programs.
- Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open the Windows Security dialog box.
- Click Task Manager, and then click the Processes tab.
- Click Winword.exe, and then click End Process.
- In the Task Manager Warning dialog box, click Yes.
How do I unlock a locked Excel file?
You can also press Ctrl+Shift+F or Ctrl+1. In the Format Cells popup, in the Protection tab, uncheck the Locked box and then click OK. This unlocks all the cells on the worksheet when you protect the worksheet.
If you are trying to co-author, the “locked” error can occur if the file uses a feature that is not supported by co-authoring. Ask the person who has the file open to do one or more of the following. The first thing to try is to turn off the Shared Workbook feature.
How can I solve The file is locked for shared use by… error?
- Wait a few hours.
- Try out a different cloud storage provider: Sync.com.
- Check that the file isn’t already open.
- Turn Off the Require Check Out option.
- Adjust the Permissions Level Settings.
How can I unlock an Excel spreadsheet without the password?
How to Remove Password from Excel Spreadsheet (Unprotect Excel)
- Step 1: Go to Control panel.
- Step 2: Click on Folder Options.
- Step 3: Open View Tab.
- Step 4: Uncheck “Hide Extension for the known file type”
- Step 5: Select the excel file.
- Step 6: Change the extension of your Excel file from .
- Step 7: Open Zip File & Extract.
Use the “Open in Word” option and not “Open in Word Online” or “Open in SharePoint.” Once you have it open in Word, follow “File> Information> Manage document”, click on Check out and Check In and then save it.
How do I unlock an Excel file in OneDrive?
No, it is not possible for OneDrive to unlock the file because OneDrive is not locking it. The file is being locked by Excel because someone already has the file open. This is normal behavior. Your only option is to save a new copy or wait until the other person has closed the file.
Some things that can be tested, to force the file’s lock to be released are:
- Logout from MetaShare/SharePoint and login again.
- Open the document in the Online app and rename the file from there.
- Check if “Upload Center” has locked this document.
How do you unlock an Excel spreadsheet?
Unprotect an Excel worksheet
- Go to File > Info > Protect > Unprotect Sheet, or from the Review tab > Changes > Unprotect Sheet.
- If the sheet is protected with a password, then enter the password in the Unprotect Sheet dialog box, and click OK.
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- Go to the SharePoint library, click settings icon > Library settings.
- Click Versioning settings under General Settings.
- Check whether you have chosen Yes in Require Check Out. If yes, please choose No and check the result.
The file lock behavior is for protecting saving conflict. The lock stays for 20 minutes to 1 hour. This lock time cannot be modified. Try to open the file in the office word client then File > Info > Manage Document > Check Out then Check In > Save.
How do I unlock a file to edit in Onedrive?
If you do not see the option to lock the file, make sure you are on the most recent version of Box Drive:
- Locate the file you would like to lock in your Box Drive folder structure.
- Right-click on the file.
- In the menu that appears, select Lock File.
- To unlock, right-click the file and select Unlock File.
How do you check if a file is locked by another user?
Identify which handle or DLL is using a file
- Open Process Explorer. Running as administrator.
- Enter the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F.
- A search dialog box will open.
- Type in the name of the locked file or other file of interest.
- Click the button “Search”.
- A list will be generated.
When opening an excel file in SharePoint, the option to lock an excel document to be password protected is not available. Instead, you must open the file using the “open in desktop” version.
How do you unlock a team document?
To unlock a file, click the blue key button to the right of the file name in the list of files. If you are viewing an individual file, the blue key option will appear beneath the file name. Note: Only site owners/administrators and project administrators can lock or unlock files.
How do I unprotect a sheet in Excel?
Whenever we want to unprotect sheet, we can:
- Right-click on the worksheet tab and select the “unprotect button.” We can also go to the review tab and select unprotect sheet.
- Next, we will go to the home tab, select “Cells” group and click Format. Next, we will pick “Select Unprotect sheet”
How do you unfreeze a column in Excel?
To unfreeze panes:
To unfreeze rows or columns, click the Freeze Panes command, then select Unfreeze Panes from the drop-down menu.
How do I unlock a file to edit in OneDrive? There is only one way to unlock a file to edit in OneDrive. If the file is created by you, you can click the Unlock or Edit button. However, if you are not the owner of a certain file, you must delete the temporary file that stores the user data.
The issue usually happens when any of the files in the shared folder is opened in the browser or the Office client while you are trying to modify the folder. In that situation, users who are opening the file need to close them from Office clients or the browsers.
When I logged-in with admin account, it is not allowing to even open the folder. It shows ‘Access denied’. I am getting same error on SharePoint site also for the same functionality. I am logging with domain account.
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