How to disable "Read-only" popup when opening a Word 2003 document ?

[Goran Ivanic]

When I open some (but not all) Word documents with Word 2003 a popup appears asking me:

D:\...\mydoc.doc should be opened as read-only unless changes to it need to be saved.
Open as read-onyl ? YES NO ?

How can I permanently (for all docs) disable this prompt dialog ?

Goran

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Is D: a CD/DVD Drive? By default, documents copied to such drives are read
only as it is not advisable to edit them from that source. Copy the
documents to the Hard Drive and then change the Read only attribute via the
Properties dialog that you access by right clicking on the file in Windows
Explorer.

Otherwise, see the article "I keep getting files that I am working on locked
for editing. Word only allows me to open them read-only" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/LockedFiles.htm

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[Camelia P]

I know that this dialog comes from the fact that on saving the document, it
had this box checked.
So, I think that this depend on how a person saves him/her document and you
can not change this feature for ALL documents, but for YOURS (ie the ones
that you create). You can do that by following these steps:
FORMAT - OPTIONS - SECURITY - uncheck the "read only recommended" box.
Good luck!
Camelia

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Is D: a CD/DVD Drive? By default, documents copied to such drives are read
only as it is not advisable to edit them from that source. Copy the
documents to the Hard Drive and then change the Read only attribute via the
Properties dialog that you access by right clicking on the file in Windows
Explorer.

Otherwise, see the article "I keep getting files that I am working on locked
for editing. Word only allows me to open them read-only" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/LockedFiles.htm



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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Graham Mayor]

If D: is a CD/DVD drive copy the file to the hard drive first then remove
its read only property, otherwise see
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

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