[bomdemais]

I am running Word 2002. I received a document and I can't edit it.
I'm not sure how the write protection is implemented. I tried changing
macro security to high, and disabling VBA, but it didn't allow me to
edit.

I am able to save as RTF, then open in Wordpad and re-save as
something else. But then I lose a lot of the formatting.

Anyone know how to disable the write protection? And out of
curiosity, how the heck did they set up the protection?

[Graham Mayor]

Did they simply set the read only file attribute in Windows?

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bomdemais wrote:
I am running Word 2002. I received a document and I can't edit it.
I'm not sure how the write protection is implemented. I tried changing
macro security to high, and disabling VBA, but it didn't allow me to
edit.

I am able to save as RTF, then open in Wordpad and re-save as
something else. But then I lose a lot of the formatting.

Anyone know how to disable the write protection? And out of
curiosity, how the heck did they set up the protection?

[bomdemais]

On May 10, 7:32 am, "Graham Mayor" wrote:
Did they simply set the read only file attribute in Windows?

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No, I think it would say "Read Only" in the title bar. But when I
right click - Properties, read only is not checked. "Archive" was
checked, so I unchecked it to see what that would do. But it didn't
change anything.