Re: Office 2007 Docs open read only from Webdav folder

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My best guess is that the problem has nothing to do with read only
access or office 2007.

I think the problem may be because you may have copied the old files
to the new pc while logged in as administrator. This likely made the
administrator the "owner" of the files. User accounts likely will
have no access or read access (no permission to change the file). Note
that this is different from the read-only you refer to.

If I am right, there are several possible solutions.
1. Go through the directories of old files and change the access user
accounts are allowed. This is easier if there is a single parent
directory for all old files. Then (I think), you should be able to
change the user access in the single parent directory & let the new
permissions propogate down through the directory tree.
2. Maybe easier. Delete all the old files using the administrative
account. Recopy all the old files back to the pc using the USER
account. This way, the USER should be the owner & have total access.
Administrator accounts have access to everything.

I hope this is helpful. I am not a MVP, so my knowledge is limited.




On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 08:35:17 -0800 (PST), connie.mccluskey@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:

I'm having a similar problem so I thought I'd add it to this
discussion rather than start a new one.

I'm having a problem accessing existing files with my new Word and
Excel 2007 running under Windows XP Professional. I recently bought a
new laptop computer (Lenovo R61i) and set up two main users (one with
Administrative access and one without, so I could run my machine in a
more secure mode). I installed Microsoft Office using the
Administrative user and was able to open the programs successfully
from both users. I copied all my old Word and Excel files to
directories residing under the Shared Documents folder and then set
the Word and Excel options (I had to do it separately for both users)
to save files to the appropriate folders in the old compatibility
mode.

When I open the old files as the Administrative user, I have no
problems. However, when I open the same files as the user without
administrative privileges, the files are opened as "Read-Only" files
and I cannot save them after making edits. I checked in Windows
Explorer (with both users) and the files are not marked as Read-Only
in Windows, so it seems to be a problem with Word or Excel. As a
double check I ran the command line ATTRIB program on the same old
data files and they do not have the Read-Only Attribute set. Since I
want to run in the more secure "non-administrator" mode as much as
possible, can you let me know how to fix this problem so my old files
do not open in Read-Only mode.

I already tried changing the Read only option for the non-admin user
in Windows Explorer using the Tools>Folder Options>File Types menu,
but the Advanced button where the Read only option is said to reside
is grayed out if you don't have Administrator privileges.

Any Advice would be most welcome.

Thanks, Steve McCluskey


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