Can't edit my word document!

[sunmarin]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I created a new document, saved it. Went back to edit it and make changes and I can't. No curser even appears for me to select a word to change. I can add and remove text boxes, but nothing else. It's behaving like a PDF... but it's saved as a doc.x

Please help! Thanks!

 

[John McGhie]

Answered elsewhere... Please stick to your original thread so we can keep
track of things.

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I
created a new document, saved it. Went back to edit it and make changes and I
can't. No curser even appears for me to select a word to change. I can add
and remove text boxes, but nothing else. It's behaving like a PDF... but it's
saved as a doc.x

Please help! Thanks!

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[sunmarin]

I think what's happening is word turned my document into a 'read only' document when I saved it. So I can't make changes to the document - I can only add text boxes. Does this make sense to you? When I went into the document again and tried to save it under a different name, it told me it was a read only document and I had to choose where to save it.

 

[John McGhie]

No, it doesn't.

A "Read-Only" document in Word can be edited like any other document.

When you come to save it, Word will warn you that it was opened read-only
and must now be saved to a different file name.

But when you open a read-only document, you can edit the file normally.

Cheers

I think what's happening is word turned my document into a 'read only'
document when I saved it. So I can't make changes to the document - I can
only add text boxes. Does this make sense to you? When I went into the
document again and tried to save it under a different name, it told me it was
a read only document and I had to choose where to save it.

--

The email below is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless I ask you to; or unless you intend to pay!

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410 | mailto:[email protected]