Re: Read only file - plus

From: Echo S (echos_at_indyughspam.net)
Date: 09/11/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:03:15 -0500

If the file is passworded, you shouldn't be able to Save As.

I'd suggest opening a window in Windows Explorer, right-clicking the file
and choosing properties, and deselecting the Read-only attribute.

Files copied to CD become read only. When you copy them back to a
hard-drive, they're still read-only unless you do what I suggested above. 

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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
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"Pdek" <pdek_man2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:A5FAFEED-D12F-4908-9AEB-A06CF5BE24E2@microsoft.com...
> I've got a read only file that I somehow created and know the passwork to.
> I can't make changes to it and save it as the same file name,
> but I can save it under a different file name (who thought up this one?).
> Unfortunately, if I save it under a different file name, delete the
original
> file and then resave under the original name, it seems to f up my
hyperlinks.
> Anyone know how to do this easily?
>
> More info and a harder question follow.
> -------------------
> PowerPoint 2002, also using PPTViewer 2003
> I've saved a large collection of integrated files
> for my students on an autosart CD using the Viewer.
> CD works fine, but the majority of my students don't need the CD,
> they can get the files off of a networked hard drive.  Also I can use the
> hard drive to present in class (its faster than the CD).
>
> I'd like to make minor up-dates or occasional major changes
> as I go along through the semester.
> One problem is the Read Only stuff described above (must have come in when
> the CD was made).
> Prob. 2 is keeping straight which is the current version among the one on
>   My laptop (RW CD drive, soundcard, no internet or network connections)
>   My desktop (can't write to CD or record sound, both internet and
network)
>   and the network version (only 90 MB's available to me)
> Prob. 3 is many switches from one of the above to another seem to f up
> the hyperlinks, unless I just copy the whole thing at once.
>
> Any specific tactics or general strategies on keeping all the above
straight?
> Thanks
> --
> Pete

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