Remotely close excel workbook

[TCII]

At my work I am responsible for updating some excel workbooks but constantly run into an issue of other users forgetting to close the workbooks and therefor I am unable to update the data. Due to our security restraints we are unable to make these workbooks shared documents. Is there a way for me to remotely close one of these files from my PC? Additionally, the workbook does not need to be saved prior to remotely closing as the other users only access to view graphs and data, not to update. I am the only user with access to update these files.
Thank you in advanced for any advice you are able to provide.

 

[Vogateer]

If the other users don't need to make changes, maybe you could set the files to read-only at the filesystem level, and only change it just as you're about to open it. I believe Excel VBA can change the read only status of a file so long as that file is closed with the following:

' Make read-only
SetAttr "C:\Blank.xls", vbReadOnly

' Make writeable
SetAttr "C:\Blank.xls", vbNormal

If you use another Excel workbook to open the files you need, you could have it make the file writeable just as you need to. So long as the file is read-only, the other users won't be able to lock the file.

 

[TCII]

@Vogateer Thank you very much! I will give this a try.

 

[Vogateer]

I hope it does the trick. I should note that the main annoyance of this would be to make these files read-only again. You would have to remember to make them read-only each time after you save the file. Good luck!