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From: Judith & George Braithwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu 08 Feb 2007 06:49:25 EST
> Have recently bought a new computer and have Open Office as my word
> processing tool. I have saved my Excel files on CD. When I opened
> up the file(files) they were Read Only and when I went to save them
> in Open Office I got a box saying "See Administrator to obtain
> permission". How and what do I do.
>
> I have tried changing the name of the file and changing the xl
> extension to Open office with no success.
>
> These are my Cat Pedigree files which are a must have for me.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Judith Braithwaite
Files burnt to CD-R are always read-only, because CD-R disks are
write-once-only media. When these files are copied back from CD to your
hard disk, the operating system normally preserves the read-only status.
When you try to save a read-only file using the same file name your
operating system will not allow this and displays the "Administrator"
message you are seeing. OOo (OpenOffice.org) does not and should not
override your operating system's access privileges and rights.
You have 2 options:
1. Use your file manager ("My Computer") to toggle off the file(s)
read-only properties.
2. Open the file(s) in OOo Calc and use "File -> Save As..." to save the
file(s) with a different name (eg. MyOrigFile.xls to MyNewFile.xls).
Please do not mess around with file extensions, under MS Windows this
will create more problems than it can ever resolve.
Hope this helps.
Dave
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