[robert morris[_2_]]

I finally came out of the dark ages. Problem is I transfered quite a number
of Word documents to a CD-RW. I need to restore some of them to use as
templates. I see them on the CD but need to open and save in the Office 2007
format. I receive a message of "program not responding". I need to know how
to remove the "Read Only" attribute and how to save them to Office 2007. I
have looked through the Help however could not find an answer.

Bob M.

[Jay Freedman]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:01:00 -0700, robert morris
wrote:


I finally came out of the dark ages. Problem is I transfered quite a number
of Word documents to a CD-RW. I need to restore some of them to use as
templates. I see them on the CD but need to open and save in the Office 2007
format. I receive a message of "program not responding". I need to know how
to remove the "Read Only" attribute and how to save them to Office 2007. I
have looked through the Help however could not find an answer.

Bob M.

First, don't try to use them directly from the CD. Copy them to a
folder on the hard disk. Once they're there, select all of them,
right-click, select Properties, and uncheck the Read Only box.

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Jay Freedman
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[robert morris[_2_]]

Jay,

Many thanks for the reply. I do find that I cannot simply open the file
using "open". It does work perfectly if I open with the "Edit" selection
from the Properties Box.

Is this normal?

Bob M.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:01:00 -0700, robert morris
wrote:


I finally came out of the dark ages. Problem is I transfered quite a number
of Word documents to a CD-RW. I need to restore some of them to use as
templates. I see them on the CD but need to open and save in the Office 2007
format. I receive a message of "program not responding". I need to know how
to remove the "Read Only" attribute and how to save them to Office 2007. I
have looked through the Help however could not find an answer.

Bob M.

First, don't try to use them directly from the CD. Copy them to a
folder on the hard disk. Once they're there, select all of them,
right-click, select Properties, and uncheck the Read Only box.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

[Graham Mayor]

If they are templates, the default action applied by Windows Explorer would
be to create new documents from them. You should be able to open them
directly from Word 2007 or from right click edit in Explorer. You can
change the default action from Explorer tools folder options file
types if you want.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


robert morris wrote:
Jay,

Many thanks for the reply. I do find that I cannot simply open the
file using "open". It does work perfectly if I open with the "Edit"
selection from the Properties Box.

Is this normal?

Bob M.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:01:00 -0700, robert morris
wrote:


I finally came out of the dark ages. Problem is I transfered quite
a number of Word documents to a CD-RW. I need to restore some of
them to use as templates. I see them on the CD but need to open
and save in the Office 2007 format. I receive a message of
"program not responding". I need to know how to remove the "Read
Only" attribute and how to save them to Office 2007. I have looked
through the Help however could not find an answer.

Bob M.

First, don't try to use them directly from the CD. Copy them to a
folder on the hard disk. Once they're there, select all of them,
right-click, select Properties, and uncheck the Read Only box.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.