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Read Only
Whenever I try to save/copy a word document to a CD, it saves it as read-only
and then I can't make any changes to it later. Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix it? Sincerely, Daria |
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That's how CDs work. *Never* save to CD, always copy or you risk document
corruption. When you copy the document back to the hard drive for editing/printing etc., right click the filename in Windows Explorer and uncheck the read only property. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Daria wrote: Whenever I try to save/copy a word document to a CD, it saves it as read-only and then I can't make any changes to it later. Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix it? Sincerely, Daria |
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CDs are a read only medium unless you have a read/write, but then you
have to reburn the info back to the CD via burner software. If you've formatted a CD to copy info to it via your Windows Explorer, that only means it's able to accept new info. But you need the media to be "dynamic" in order to open temp files to allow the file to be activated and rewritten back to the CD....which isn't the case. Besides, you should never work off a portable device such as a floppy or such because the doc can too easily become corrupt. MUCH BETTER to copy it to your Hard Drive...modify it and copy the final version back to your Floppy/CD. Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified Editor/TechTrax Ezine Free Tutorials: http://www.mousetrax.com/techtrax Free Word eBook: www.mousetrax.com/books.html Optimize your business docs: www.mousetrax.com/consulting Learn VBA the easy way: www.mousetrax.com/techcourses.html On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:59:02 -0800, "?B?RGFyaWE=?=" wrote: Whenever I try to save/copy a word document to a CD, it saves it as read-only and then I can't make any changes to it later. Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix it? Sincerely, Daria |
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