Read Only

[Daria]

Whenever I try to save/copy a word document to a CD, it saves it as read-only
and then I can't make any changes to it later.
Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix it?
Sincerely,
Daria

 

[Graham Mayor]

That's how CDs work. *Never* save to CD, always copy or you risk document
corruption. When you copy the document back to the hard drive for
editing/printing etc., right click the filename in Windows Explorer and
uncheck the read only property.

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[Dian Chapman, MVP, MOS]

CDs are a read only medium unless you have a read/write, but then you
have to reburn the info back to the CD via burner software. If you've
formatted a CD to copy info to it via your Windows Explorer, that only
means it's able to accept new info. But you need the media to be
"dynamic" in order to open temp files to allow the file to be
activated and rewritten back to the CD....which isn't the case.

Besides, you should never work off a portable device such as a floppy
or such because the doc can too easily become corrupt. MUCH BETTER to
copy it to your Hard Drive...modify it and copy the final version back
to your Floppy/CD.

Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant
Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified
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