Attachments open as read only

[Matt]

Can anyone answer this one?

In Outlook 2003 Pro, when attachments are sent (Excel,
Word, etc.) and are opened within an email (not
previously saved-as) they have the Read-Only attribute
checked in their properties and the selection is greyed
out. This makes the only option available after making
changes to be Save-As to your local machine. However, if
you forward the same email and then open the attached
file before you send it, the file properties now show
Archived, also greyed out, and the Read-Only check has
been removed. Now you are able to Save the changes
directly in the email.

In Outlook XP this was not the case, you could open an
attachment, make changes and save it to the same email on
your exchange server or local machine. You could then
forward or file the email as needed.

Any help would be greatly appreciateed.

Matt

 

[Tahoe Guy]

This is the same for all version of Outlook. It is read-only until they
save it to their machine. When you open the attachment up in Outlook it
opens it in Temporary INternet Files.

Travis

 

[Matt]

This is not the case in older versions. I still have a
box running Office XP and one running Office 2000 Pro.
The files do not have the attributes greyed out when
opened from within an email. This is a change for Office
2003.

Matt

 

[Carrie Roth]

Matt is correct, when you opened an attachment in Outlook XP it was
not read-only, and now in outlook 2003 it mainly opens as read-only
but not always, what can be done to not have the attachment be
read-only.

Carrie Roth

 

[Chips]

Has anyone figured out how to fix this problem yet?