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Read-only mode in Word 2010 won't go away
Thread poster: Mervyn Henderson (X)
Rolf Keller
Rolf Keller
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Any operating system provides a read-only function Apr 15, 2019

I wonder why nobody has mentioned the standard read-only function of Windows' file system as yet.

Right-click the file in Explorer, choose properties and look at the Read-Only checkbox. If that box is checked there is no way to get rid of the read-only message.

Apart of that one has to bear in mind that Word tries to protect the user from data loss. In order to do that Word keeps hidden copies. So the file should be renamed (while Word is not running) in order to get ri
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I wonder why nobody has mentioned the standard read-only function of Windows' file system as yet.

Right-click the file in Explorer, choose properties and look at the Read-Only checkbox. If that box is checked there is no way to get rid of the read-only message.

Apart of that one has to bear in mind that Word tries to protect the user from data loss. In order to do that Word keeps hidden copies. So the file should be renamed (while Word is not running) in order to get rid of such copies; these copies might be read-only even if the original is writable.
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Thomas T. Frost
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Rolf Keller wrote:

I wonder why nobody has mentioned the standard read-only function of Windows' file system as yet.

Right-click the file in Explorer, choose properties and look at the Read-Only checkbox. If that box is checked there is no way to get rid of the read-only message.



The first thing Mervyn said was that he had checked Properties for this.


 
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