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View/Comment Only?

I'd like to allow people to view my sheet and comment on tasks without being able to make any other edits. It would be great to have more specific control of user permissions to make this possible.
Maybe somebody has a creative way to do this with sharing/publishing?
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Have you tried Locking all the input columns? I think you can do this, but the comment column remains open.
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BMar ✭
Not a bad idea. Thanks for the tip. The only problem would be that other users whodoneed to edit the sheet would all have to have admin status. I might be able to live with that, though...
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+ 1 Agreed
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If I understand correctly, this may help.<\/p>
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