HOW DO I UNLOCK A "read only" document?

[therese1216]

We just bought a new computer. I went and typed a document for work in word
and saved it on a disk. When I went back to it a couple of hours later, I get
a read only message when I attempt to save my changes. I've followed the
steps that windows gives in response to my question on how to remove "read
only" with no sucess. Can anyone help?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you saved to a CD, then the file is read-only by default, even after
you've copied it back to the HD. You can clear the read-only property from
the file on your HD but not on the CD. If you're trying to save directly to
the CD, then that's part of the problem. Save to the HD, then copy to the
CD.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

See the article "I keep getting files that I am working on locked for
editing. Word only allows me to open them read-only" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/LockedFiles.htm


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[therese1216]

Hi Suzanne,
Thank you for that bit of advice. I had a lot of work for the office that I
needed to be able to download and print once I got back to work. My only
problem now is that my disk is filling up with documents that are only
read-only. What do I do about that?

 

[therese1216]

If you saved to a CD, then the file is read-only by default, even after
you've copied it back to the HD. You can clear the read-only property from
the file on your HD but not on the CD. If you're trying to save directly to
the CD, then that's part of the problem. Save to the HD, then copy to the
CD.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There's really no way around this. Files saved to a CD are read-only by
definition.

 

[i AM USING microsoft Word Office]

We just bought a new computer. I went and typed a document for work in word
and saved it on a disk. When I went back to it a couple of hours later, I get
a read only message when I attempt to save my changes. I've followed the
steps that windows gives in response to my question on how to remove "read
only" with no sucess. Can anyone help?

 

[Graham Mayor]

What do you mean by 'just bought'. Is this Word 2007 pre-installed on a new
PC? If so it will almost certainly be a trial version. Either that trial has
now expired because you have used it more times than you thought, or you
have not activated it. In the case of the former you will have to buy the
application. In the case of the latter Office Button (looks like a pizza) >
Word Options > Resources > Activate

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[Terry Farrell]

What do you mean by, 'saved it to disk'. Do you mean the internal hard disk
drive?