Configure a Workbook to Open in Edit Mode by Default

As a workbook author, you can make workbooks that you create open in Edit mode as the default behavior.

A workbook always opens in Viewer mode unless you change its Open as a Viewer property.

1. On your home page, hover over a workbook, click Actions, then select Open.
2. Click Edit to open the workbook in edit mode and enable the display of workbook properties.
   
   

   
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3. Click the workbook Menu and select Workbook Properties.
4. In the Open as a Viewer field, click Off for the workbook to open in edit mode by default.
5. Click OK.
6. Click Go back, then click Save.