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Amabel Calima
This is something I've searched all over Help and sifted through some of the
forums for, and of course tried to figure out myself, but I can't seem to
find an answer.
I am using Word 2003.
What's happening:
I created a master document with two subdocuments. Before, if a subdocument
was closed then I could unlock and edit it in the master document, and if the
master document was open, I could open and edit the subdocument as usual.
Suddenly, if I open up the master document and /then/ the subdocument, the
subdocument is read-only. (*But* the first time I was editing the Read-Only
subdocument, before I even saved it the changed were appearing in the master
document.) If I try to unlock a subdocument from inside the master document,
it tells me that the files have different levels of protection, so I can't
unlock.
The error message I get is,
"The operation cannot be completed because the subdocument has a different
type of protection from the master document. Make the protection the same
for the master document and subdocuments."
I have _never_ added any level of "protection" to any of the documents.
What I know and have tried:
I've read all about protection (Tools-->Protect Document, etc.) and fiddled
with various settings. Since I never protected any of them, of course I
can't click Tools-->Unprotect Document. It seems like the above mentioned
problems are the only signs of any protection in the documents. I tried
protecting and then unprotecting; didn't work. I looked at Properties from
both inside and outside of Word; I looked all around Tools-->Options; I
opened/closed documents & restarted Word multiple times; I experimented with
the "Forms" toolbar, even though my documents are not forms, but plain text;
I did repeated searches for Help both on and off-line. Nothing I've been
able to find has told me anything I don't already know.
What could, just possibly, contribute to the problem:
- I save many versions of the subdocuments. (Master documents, it seems,
won't allow version saves, much to my dismay. If anyone has a solution to
that, I'd love to hear it.
)
- Between when I last closed them and when I opened them now, I encrypted
them with a simple encryption program. I decrypted all of them before
starting to work.
What I'm begging for:
Please, please, please, does someone know a way to make all of my documents
on the same protection level? I don't need anything really fancy; I just
want my documents to be the way they were!
Thanks and cheers,
A.C.
forums for, and of course tried to figure out myself, but I can't seem to
find an answer.
I am using Word 2003.
What's happening:
I created a master document with two subdocuments. Before, if a subdocument
was closed then I could unlock and edit it in the master document, and if the
master document was open, I could open and edit the subdocument as usual.
Suddenly, if I open up the master document and /then/ the subdocument, the
subdocument is read-only. (*But* the first time I was editing the Read-Only
subdocument, before I even saved it the changed were appearing in the master
document.) If I try to unlock a subdocument from inside the master document,
it tells me that the files have different levels of protection, so I can't
unlock.
The error message I get is,
"The operation cannot be completed because the subdocument has a different
type of protection from the master document. Make the protection the same
for the master document and subdocuments."
I have _never_ added any level of "protection" to any of the documents.
What I know and have tried:
I've read all about protection (Tools-->Protect Document, etc.) and fiddled
with various settings. Since I never protected any of them, of course I
can't click Tools-->Unprotect Document. It seems like the above mentioned
problems are the only signs of any protection in the documents. I tried
protecting and then unprotecting; didn't work. I looked at Properties from
both inside and outside of Word; I looked all around Tools-->Options; I
opened/closed documents & restarted Word multiple times; I experimented with
the "Forms" toolbar, even though my documents are not forms, but plain text;
I did repeated searches for Help both on and off-line. Nothing I've been
able to find has told me anything I don't already know.
What could, just possibly, contribute to the problem:
- I save many versions of the subdocuments. (Master documents, it seems,
won't allow version saves, much to my dismay. If anyone has a solution to
that, I'd love to hear it.
)- Between when I last closed them and when I opened them now, I encrypted
them with a simple encryption program. I decrypted all of them before
starting to work.
What I'm begging for:
Please, please, please, does someone know a way to make all of my documents
on the same protection level? I don't need anything really fancy; I just
want my documents to be the way they were!
Thanks and cheers,
A.C.