Re: Cannot edit workbooks saved to CD

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From: Mike Fogleman (mikefogleman_at_insightbb.com)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:45:23 -0500

Think of the CD as merely a way to transport the file from your home hard
drive to your work hard drive. If you create the file at home on your hard
drive, then copy it to the CD. When you take the CD to work, copy it from
the CD to your work hard drive. Open the file copy on the hard drive to work
on it. After you are done at work, copy the changed file back to the CD to
take home.
Mike F
"BP" <BP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CB4AD7DF-F95D-43F1-89F1-FDBB9A62C5CB@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Rob for taking the time. As you can tell, I don't really know what
> I'm doing. All I really need to know is how I can save the very large
excel
> file to a disk or CD or whatever so I can use it on other computers. What
> kind of disk or CD do I need to save it so its functional? If you could
walk
> me through what I need to do like a 2 year old, i would greatly appreciate
it.
>
> "Rob van Gelder" wrote:
>
> > In my experience, all files written to CDROM (inlcuding rewritables)
have
> > the read-only attribute set.
> >
> > Excel sees this attribute and flags the workbook read-only.
> >
> > You would have to copy the file to a writable device (such as C: drive)
> >
> > --
> > Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel
> >
> >
> > "BP" <BP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:7964026C-2610-4DB6-A320-96B675E19DE8@microsoft.com...
> > > Every time I save my workbooks to CD, they become read-only on the CD
even
> > > though thats not what I saved them as. I cannot change the status
because
> > > it
> > > says "access denied" when I attempt to change the file saved on CD.
How
> > > can
> > > I save my workbooks to CD so that I can edit and continue to work with
> > > them?
> >
> >
> >

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