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password protection
So, once again Microsoft has failed to implement a simple password protection
solution. In using MS Word from MS office XP I have a password protected document. I entered the password for access and the password for write permission and still it said that the document was read only when I tried to save. I had to save it as a different file, delete the old file (trying to just rename it just gave me a file permissions error) and rename the file back to the old name. I opened the new/renamed file and still CAN'T GET write permissions when I try and use the password on the new file. The password is correct. There is no password error message. I HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS NONSENSE EVERY TIME I MAKE CHANGES!!!! MS Word has been around for about 20 years now. YOU'D THINK THAT MICROSOFT DEVELOPERS WOULD GET IT RIGHT BY NOW?!?!?!?!! Maybe a regClean?? I'm using XP pro SP2, MS Office 2003 fully updated. The other pet peve I have with MS Word and password protection is this.. If you open a document that is password protection and you select to view it "Read Only". If you accidentally make a change or forget that the document is R/O, THE DAMN THING ASKS YOU IF YOU WISH TO SAVE CHANGES!!! HOW CAN i SAVE CHANGES IF THE DAMN DOCUMENT IS R/O???? Would it be more prudent that when a change is detected to alert you that you are changing a read only document and perhaps PROMPT YOU FOR A PASSWORD?!?!?!?!?!! Ah, the Microsoft mentality..... totally counter intuitive. |
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Please don't SHOUT. The people reading these messages do not work for
Microsoft, they are your fellow users. Sorry you are upset. The thing is, you can save changes to a read-only document, as you've discovered. You simply save it under a different name, close the document, delete the read-only old document, and then rename your new version with the old name. Given how easy this is to do, I often wonder why people bother making files read only. Write permissions can be something that Word put in at your request, or can be a product of your OS permissions. BTW, one post is sufficient. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. " wrote in message ... So, once again Microsoft has failed to implement a simple password protection solution. In using MS Word from MS office XP I have a password protected document. I entered the password for access and the password for write permission and still it said that the document was read only when I tried to save. I had to save it as a different file, delete the old file (trying to just rename it just gave me a file permissions error) and rename the file back to the old name. I opened the new/renamed file and still CAN'T GET write permissions when I try and use the password on the new file. The password is correct. There is no password error message. I HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS NONSENSE EVERY TIME I MAKE CHANGES!!!! MS Word has been around for about 20 years now. YOU'D THINK THAT MICROSOFT DEVELOPERS WOULD GET IT RIGHT BY NOW?!?!?!?!! Maybe a regClean?? I'm using XP pro SP2, MS Office 2003 fully updated. The other pet peve I have with MS Word and password protection is this.. If you open a document that is password protection and you select to view it "Read Only". If you accidentally make a change or forget that the document is R/O, THE DAMN THING ASKS YOU IF YOU WISH TO SAVE CHANGES!!! HOW CAN i SAVE CHANGES IF THE DAMN DOCUMENT IS R/O???? Would it be more prudent that when a change is detected to alert you that you are changing a read only document and perhaps PROMPT YOU FOR A PASSWORD?!?!?!?!?!! Ah, the Microsoft mentality..... totally counter intuitive. |
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