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Originally Posted by 3weekend
occasionally, for no reason I can see, word docs that I'm working on and saved turn up as read-only. The instructions say to "change attribute," but the attribute doesn't respond to being changed. I work by myself, and rarely --very rarely -- have I wanted to keep something read only. The only way I get around this is to copy the doc and generate a new one.
Will appreciate help.
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This can be caused by several things. A couple I can think of off-hand to check out a
1. Word (and other MS Office apps, but mainly Word) create temporary files when you open a document. These files are used for various things, one of them being controlling if somebody already has the document open, and appear in the same directory as the original document and always start with a ~ character. Word is notoriously bad at cleaning these up. When you have all of your documents closed, do a search for files beginning with a ~ and delete them all.
2. Where you are saving the files may be marked as Read-Only, and therefore assigning this attribute to your documents. To check this, in Explorer right-click on the folder you are saving into, and select Properties. On the General tab, under Attributes, the Read Only checkbox should be un-ticked.