[Bevatron]

What seems a straight forward plan has run amuck. When I take the Briefcase
I have created on a CD-RW disc home to my desktop, the files are read only.
AAAGGGHHH. When I use those same Briefcase files on the original computer
at work, they are fine. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you for your help.

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Bevatron wrote:
What seems a straight forward plan has run amuck. When I take the Briefcase
I have created on a CD-RW disc home to my desktop, the files are read only.
AAAGGGHHH. When I use those same Briefcase files on the original computer
at work, they are fine. What am I doing wrong?

Nothing. Any files on a CD (or copied from one to your computer) are
read-only, IIRC.

So, after copying them to your HD, you change the read-only attribute
through your OS.

Greetinx
Robert
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[Bevatron]

Thank you. I will attempt that this evening.

"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote:

Bevatron wrote:
What seems a straight forward plan has run amuck. When I take the Briefcase
I have created on a CD-RW disc home to my desktop, the files are read only.
AAAGGGHHH. When I use those same Briefcase files on the original computer
at work, they are fine. What am I doing wrong?

Nothing. Any files on a CD (or copied from one to your computer) are
read-only, IIRC.

So, after copying them to your HD, you change the read-only attribute
through your OS.

Greetinx
Robert
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
\ / | MVP
X Against HTML | for
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word

[Charles Kenyon]

If you want to be able to use your documents, when working within Word, act
as if your removable media drives do not exist! (This applies to floppy
drives, CDRW/CDR, flash drives or DVDR drives as well as any other kind of
removable media drives.)
Don't use Word to:
Open a document on removable media
Print a document on a removable media
Edit a document on a removable media
Save a document to a removable media (not even a copy)

Word regularly trashes documents on removable media drives!

Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth
using Windows.

I know that for some with shared computers (libraries, schools) this is a
tough prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new
formatted disk each time you save and don't do any editing.
--
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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!

My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com
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"Bevatron" wrote in message
...
What seems a straight forward plan has run amuck. When I take the
Briefcase
I have created on a CD-RW disc home to my desktop, the files are read
only.
AAAGGGHHH. When I use those same Briefcase files on the original
computer
at work, they are fine. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you for your help.