Posted by lil' jimi on March 28, 2003, at 16:14:49
In reply to ISO of an expert on MS word (office 2000) version, posted by lostsailor on March 27, 2003, at 13:51:31
> I am having a real pain with Word docs. lately. Everytime I go to open a "new office document " in Word the same text (a paper I wrote a few weeks ago) no matter what I do. I have searched thru Help and think I locked it somehow, but even following what seems to be the right direction nothing changes. I don't see any lock icon on the page that the helper seems to indicate.
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> I know that it must be to prevent others from altering the content, for example a workgroup. You are allowed to erase the entire doc and remame it or add to it a save the new text but, the next new doc I try to create, opens showing me the original text from earlier this month.
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> After dling what seems like three hundred patches for my Windows XP version, I want to trhow bags of manure on Sir Gates front lawn. Oh, it also will not let me delete the original using dos commands, either.
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> UUGGG...~tonyhey tony,
try this: look for the document's own icon, inside its folder, on the desktop, where ever... select it and right click on it... pop up menu should give choices including one for "Properties"... click on 'Properties' ... in the Properties window see the boxes at the bottom for "Attributes"... try unchecking the one for "Read Only"... hope this works for you ... or that you solved it already.
~ jim
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