Word Macro opens excel as Read only even though ReadOnly:=False

[nkpan]

Hey Thanks,
well that could be the most possible reason, but the subsequent code has closure of excel workbook and excel application quit as well.

Most likely you already had the workbook open. Your code now won't work if Excel isn't running.

[macropod]

well that could be the most possible reason, but the subsequent code has closure of excel workbook and excel application quit as well.

The fact you can subsequently close the workbook and quit Excel is irrelevant. When you start a new Excel session, as 'Set Xl = New Excel.Application' does, that new session can only update workbooks it opens; if the workbook was already open, the new session can only open it in read-only mode..