error: user does not have access privileges

[Gavin]

Hi,

Please help me solve my problem:

I brought home some word documents from work to use on my
home machine. I can open the files and read and type and
save perfectly. I have used eqiation editor to insert a
few formulae. When I try to modify these by double
clicking on them I get the following error message:

Word cannot open the document: user does not have access
privileges

I don't know what is wrong. Under the doc permission,
unrestricted access is checked.

When I try a blank document and insert an equation that
works, but when I type other stuff and want to edit the
equation again later, by double clicking on the equation
object, I get the same error message!

I'm not sure how to allow everyone to have access
privileges to a document, or is there another
workaround?

Please reply urgently.

Specs:
Windows XP SP1
Office 2003

Thanks

 

[TF]

Gavin

Try selecting the EQ and then using Ctrl+Shift+F9 (the unlink Field command)
and see if double-click will then open the EQ Editor.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/

Hi,

Please help me solve my problem:

I brought home some word documents from work to use on my
home machine. I can open the files and read and type and
save perfectly. I have used eqiation editor to insert a
few formulae. When I try to modify these by double
clicking on them I get the following error message:

Word cannot open the document: user does not have access
privileges

I don't know what is wrong. Under the doc permission,
unrestricted access is checked.

When I try a blank document and insert an equation that
works, but when I type other stuff and want to edit the
equation again later, by double clicking on the equation
object, I get the same error message!

I'm not sure how to allow everyone to have access
privileges to a document, or is there another
workaround?

Please reply urgently.

Specs:
Windows XP SP1
Office 2003

Thanks

 

[TF]

Gavin

Very strange but are you perchance using Norton Anti Virus? NAV is renowned
for buggering up Word. If you do have NAV, open it and disable the Office
plug-in.

Terry


When I do that (CTRL-SHIFT-F9) and double click,
the "Format Picture" Dialog box comes up.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Gavin]

Thanks Terry, you were so right it was nav. What a
useless programme to mess with settings that used to work
fine!

Now that I've disabled the office plugin everything opens
up perfectly!

Thanks again.

 

[Bruce Powell]

Terry,

I am having the same problem as Gavin - after inserting an
equation, it can't be edited with Word generating
the "Word cannot open the document: user does not have
access privileges".

I tried your Ctrl+Shift+F9 suggestion below and it turned
the equation into a picture type, and opened the picture
editor.

I recently installed Office 2003 Sutdent and Teachers
edition on a windows 2000 new machine. I am a math
teacher and the equation editor is essential!

All this worked before in Word 97 on a Win 98 machine.

Can you help

Thanks, Bruce

 

[Beth Melton]

Hi Bruce,

Disable the "Office Plug-in" option in Norton AV.

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