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Old March 15th, 2011, 04:00 AM
3weekend 3weekend is offline
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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.

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Old March 16th, 2011, 01:18 PM
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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.
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.
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Old April 28th, 2011, 09:57 AM
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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.

The word document is made read only for the security reasons, when your document is a read only file then its content can not be changed by anyone.Changed can be made only by copy the file to other location. You can make your document read only by recommended the read only box checked.
 




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