I am trying to setup a directory on my network that will allow people to
1) edit existing documents
2) create new documents

they should not be allowed to delete either their documents, or others
existing documents.

However, if you remove the 'delete' and 'delete files and subfoldes' rights
to the directory you find that users can no longer edit documents from this
directory. This is because word needs to delete its temporary files before it
saves the new copy.

Does any one know of a way around this?

Any help much appreciated.

Realistically, anyone with edit permission can delete. Anyone reading these
newsgroups and seeing the regular requests for how to get back overwritten
documents would realize this.

If you base new documents on templates, my guess is that this will no longer
be a problem for you.
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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!
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I am trying to setup a directory on my network that will allow people to
1) edit existing documents
2) create new documents

they should not be allowed to delete either their documents, or others
existing documents.

However, if you remove the 'delete' and 'delete files and subfoldes'
rights
to the directory you find that users can no longer edit documents from
this
directory. This is because word needs to delete its temporary files before
it
saves the new copy.

Does any one know of a way around this?

Any help much appreciated.