See the article "I keep getting files that I am working on locked for
editing. Word only allows me to open them read-only" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/LockedFiles.htm


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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"jmacd at VU" jmacd at wrote in message
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I would like to know WHY Word will automatically save some documents as
"read-only", when I did not ask it to.

It is very frustrating to go back to edit a doc that I created, and be
told
that I cannot save changes because it is read-only.

How can I set the computer to NOT save docs as read-only unless I tell it
to?