Whenever I save a word (2003) document onto a disc it saves as "read only"
which means it is locked against editing. How can I prevent this, or at the
very least unlock it when I open it?

Under Tools there is no "unprotect document". What am I missing here; or am
I looking in the wrong place?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Carol

By disc do you mean 'removable' disc such as CDR?
CDR discs are always read only - and you should never save Word documents
directly to them or you will corrupt the documents. ALWAYS copy to and from
the hard drive and work from there.
CD data is always read only - copy to the hard drive then from Windows
Explorer right click the hard drive copy and remove the read only property
check.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Carol wrote:
Whenever I save a word (2003) document onto a disc it saves as "read
only" which means it is locked against editing. How can I prevent
this, or at the very least unlock it when I open it?

Under Tools there is no "unprotect document". What am I missing here;
or am I looking in the wrong place?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Carol