How to open office document in read only mode

Hi,
I've a library that contains Excel Documents. I've create an access group with read permission.
A user belonging to this group can open a document in Excel, do changes and save back the document to the library. This is not what I want.
I want to allow users to open the document but not save it back to the library. How can I do it?
Best regards.

To check at the document level...
1) Navigate to the document library and choose a random document that a user in that group should have access to
2) Go to "View Properties" of the document. Choose "Shared With"
3) Than choose "Advanced"
This will bring up the specific permissions for a specified document. 
Also for a test, try creating another permission level for a test user. 
1) go to "Site Settings" 
2) Choose "Site Permission"
3) In the ribbon choose "Permission Levels"
4) Choose to "Add a permission Level"
5) Give the level a name... and only give it the access to read. Add a test user and see if you still get the same results. If not than you have you fix.
Let me know if this helps
Thanks, Danny Hickman IT Support Specialist

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