All word documents on my networked computer open as read-only which means
that I can't save them. I am using Win XP. I have repeatedly used the folder
options tab to turn off the read only attribute ( which incidentaly is not
checked ) but still when trying to save the changes to the document it will
not let me as it is still reading the document as read only.

This could be a network permissions issue that is preventing you from
deleting the Word lock files - see
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm and have a chat with
your network supervisor.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


miriam wrote:
All word documents on my networked computer open as read-only which
means that I can't save them. I am using Win XP. I have repeatedly
used the folder options tab to turn off the read only attribute (
which incidentaly is not checked ) but still when trying to save the
changes to the document it will not let me as it is still reading the
document as read only.

Right-click on the folder which contains your WORD files and choose Sharing &
Security. Make a check mark on "Allow Network Users to change my files"

Let us know!

"miriam" wrote:

All word documents on my networked computer open as read-only which means
that I can't save them. I am using Win XP. I have repeatedly used the folder
options tab to turn off the read only attribute ( which incidentaly is not
checked ) but still when trying to save the changes to the document it will
not let me as it is still reading the document as read only.

[a_c_can]

Does not work. This is extremely frustrating feature of M Word 2007 refuses
to save because the document is now read-only

"RajKohli" wrote:

Right-click on the folder which contains your WORD files and choose Sharing &
Security. Make a check mark on "Allow Network Users to change my files"

Let us know!

"miriam" wrote:

All word documents on my networked computer open as read-only which means
that I can't save them. I am using Win XP. I have repeatedly used the folder
options tab to turn off the read only attribute ( which incidentaly is not
checked ) but still when trying to save the changes to the document it will
not let me as it is still reading the document as read only.