CD RW's

[Jeanette]

I've installed Office XP. I was working on a document and
saved it to a CD. When I opened it the next day it opened
as a "Read Only" file. I've tried this on different
documents and it's always the same. If I save the program
as "Save As" and save it to any CD RW it always opens as
a "Read Only" file. Why??

 

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

I've installed Office XP. I was working on a document and
saved it to a CD. When I opened it the next day it opened
as a "Read Only" file. I've tried this on different
documents and it's always the same. If I save the program
as "Save As" and save it to any CD RW it always opens as
a "Read Only" file. Why??

CD ROM = Read Only Memory.

 

[Ken Macksey]

Hi

It is generally accepted that you do not save directly to a CDR or CDRW disk
since office files have been known to become corrupted and unusable by doing
that. The accepted procedure is to save the file to your Hard Drive first,
then copy it to a CD. If a file is copied to a CDR disk, it will always be
Read only. If it is copied to a cdrw disk, it should not be read only. A lot
depends on the program you are using (Nero, Easy Cd etc) to write to your cd
drive.

That being said, Easy CD Creator 6 does allow a "save as" directly to a Drag
to Disk(formerly Direct CD) formatted CDRW disk from office programs. I am
currently using Office 97 and have been saving files this way for about 6
months now and when saving to a CDRW disk the file has never been Read Only
and to this date, has never been corrupted or become unusable.

HTH

Ken