Re: Documents become read only

I have the same problem with 2 vista machines on a 5 machine network running
XP. When i access the file on my network vis Windows Explorer the read-only
box is NOT checked. When I then click on the file and it opens in Word, it
opens as read-only.

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

That doesn't answer the critical question:

When you examine one of these documents when it is reported as Read Only, is
it Read Only at Word level (that is, has the document been set to Read Only
when you look in the Save options) or has it been given a read only
attribute at Windows level (that is, open Windows Explorer and see what
attributes have been set in its file properties)?

Terry

"Helpdesk" <Helpdesk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I do have the same issue, though not all users having this issue but
couple
of users have to rename the working files very often, I am running on W2K
Domain and users on XP and office 2003, all the updates are happenning
regularly through WSUS, the only change I think was installing 2007
viewer.
Can this have any effect,

Cheers,

Helpdesk

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

We have had that problem reported before but never got a real solution.

When you examine one of these documents when it is reported as Read Only,
is
it Read Only at Word level (that is, has the document been set to Read
Only
when you look in the Save options) or has it been given a read only
attribute at Windows level (that is, open Windows Explorer and see what
attributes have been set in its file properties)?

What type of Network are they connecting to the server, what type of
Server
OS, etc? Any firewalls (ISA server)?

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"Greg Creedon" <GregCreedon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:AA12E2C7-FE72-4855-B41F-F9824A1F3834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I manage a network of around 100 users using Microsoft Word 2003. A
number
of
users have been reporting that, as they work on a document, it turns
into
a
read-only file and they have to save the file under another name.
Anyone
have
idea why this is?


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