The following is very very helpful for me at this URL: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-word/word-2007-document-unexpectedly-changes-to-read/a83b7af3-bbc7-4a4a-98c4-b20e741b9509?tm=1329530002073
Applies To: Office | Office 2007 | Microsoft Office Word | Windows XP *The problem: * Occasionally I will be editing a Word document and it will unexpectedly change to read-only status. I can open it, make changes, save it several times without closing it without any problem. At some point when I click Save, the Save As dialog comes up. If I just click Save using the current name, it says the document is read-only. I know it wasn’t read-only when I opened it because I had saved it a few times previously, but suddenly it is read-only. It doesn’t happen for every document, but it is definitely more than one, and it doesn’t happen all the time. The documents are on my local drive, not a shared drive. *The SOLUTION!!!* I have the same problem. I think it is related to the 'details pane' in Windows Explorer. Did you open the document using Windows Explorer (double click)? And while editing the document in Word, did you leave the document selected in Windows Explorer? With the 'details pane' active in Windows Explorer, this will show a thumbnail of your document plus additional information at the bottom of the Explorer window. *Try to deselect the document in Windows Explorer (e.g. by selecting another doc). Works for me.* _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
