Curious behaviour saving over a shortcut

R

Ross Smith

I have a shortcut (say A.doc) to a remote read-only document (say
masterA.doc), that I wish to be able to edit, then save to replace the
shortcut with my edited copy.

I double click the shortcut and end up editing masterA.doc as
expected. I modify it and hit 'Save'; Word correctly recognizes that
the source is read-only, so reverts to 'Saveas'. If I select the
shortcut as the destination it suggests it will be writing to A.doc,
as I want.

However, it actually creates a new file A.doc.lnk.doc.

Anyone care to explain this behaviour?
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Ross,

Windows shortcuts are a .LNK file type,
even though you don't by default see the .LNK
part displayed.

If you use the name of a shortcut and
save as a .DOC file type, from your description
it looks like what it is creating is a
..doc file that uses the full name of the shortcut.


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I have a shortcut (say A.doc) to a remote read-only document (say
masterA.doc), that I wish to be able to edit, then save to replace the
shortcut with my edited copy.

I double click the shortcut and end up editing masterA.doc as
expected. I modify it and hit 'Save'; Word correctly recognizes that
the source is read-only, so reverts to 'Saveas'. If I select the
shortcut as the destination it suggests it will be writing to A.doc,
as I want.

However, it actually creates a new file A.doc.lnk.doc.

Anyone care to explain this behaviour? <<
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

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