MS Word - Read Only Problem

[danny_mac]

I received a MS word file that required editing and returning. I forwarded the file to our health & safety consultant who edited the document, saved it and returned to myself. I read through and needed to make some minor changes. I then saved the file in the normal manner. However when i now try to open the file is asking for a password or read-only.

I've never had this issue before and our H&S consultant opened and saved the file with no issue.

Any ideas?

 

[ejr22]

Not sure how you would get around the password issue. As a quick fix, can you not just open it as read-only and then copy & paste the entire thing into a new blank Word doc and save?

Are you opening it directly from your email client, editing, then saving, or are you saving it to a location on your PC before opening/editing/saving?

Sounds strange that it would suddenly just ask for a password. Do you and your H&S Consultant work on the same network? The only thing I can think of is that your H&S Consultant has some sort of higher level of administrator rights than you and because he edited/saved it last he has taken control of the file which means you can no longer edit it? I have got to admit that I am completely guessing there and don't understand much about networks and associated admin rights.

 

[Liquidfox]

For Word 2003:
1. Make a backup copy of the document. that way if it gets all corrupted you still have the original you can read.
2. Change the document to view it in HTML code. You can do this by pressing the ALT+SHIFT+F11 keys together
3. Hit the F3 key and search for the word "password" (without quotes)
* You should find something like this:
o <wocumentProtection>ReadOnly</wocumentProtection>
o <w:UnprotectPassword>1602952A</w:UnprotectPassword>
4. Delete these two lines
5. Save the document
6. Close the HTML editor and the word document
7. When you next open the document the password should be off. if not you have one more step.
8. Go to Tools –> Unprotect Document