Why can't I access workbook after saved to CD?

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BP

Every time I save a workbook, it becomes read-only on the CD. I cannot change
its attrributes because it falshes an "access denied" when I try. How am I
supposed to save my workbooks to CD so that I can work with them on other
computers?
 
B

Bob Phillips

Is it a CD-R, not re-writable? I don't think Excel (certainly not in my
versions) supports direct writing to a CD.
 
B

BP

Thanks so much for the response. Yes, It is a CD-R. Forgive me for being
ignorant, but what kind of disk do I need to save my workbook? It does save
to it, but like I said it becomes read-only which is useless to me. It is a
really large file so I can't save it to any floppy that I have.
 
R

RagDyeR

Try copying it to your HD,
THEN, right click it in Windows Explorer,
Choose "Properties",
Find where "Attributes" resides in your Windows version (General Tab ?)
And *UNCHECK* "Read Only".

Most XL files burned to CDs will automatically acquire the "ReadOnly"
attribute.
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HTH,

RD
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Thanks so much for the response. Yes, It is a CD-R. Forgive me for being
ignorant, but what kind of disk do I need to save my workbook? It does save
to it, but like I said it becomes read-only which is useless to me. It is a
really large file so I can't save it to any floppy that I have.
 
B

BP

I already have saved to HD and gone through step to uncheck read-only and the
result is always the same read-only file after saving to CD-R. I don't care
how I do it or what kind of disk I save it on, but I need to save it to
something that allows it to be functional (size=5,406KB). Thanks for your
time.
 
F

FGM

I would try to find another way of saving it to CD because
files saved to a read only CD can be copied back to your
hard drive and used with out having to unprotect them. At
least the program I use..
 
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