changes being made to original attachment in 2003

[Hilary Ratner]

I know this sounds really odd, but here goes:

I am using Office 2003 on XP. When someone sends me a Word
attachment and I open it and make changes, and click Save,
it saves the doc in a temp file. However, it also saves
the changes to the original attachment. I'm not sure how
this is even possible, but it's doing it.

(As a side note, we recently installed security updates,
not sure if that has anything to do with this.)

My concern is that users may unknowingly make changes to
original attachments...a potentially dangerous situation.

Any ideas are appreciated.

Thanks!

Hilary

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day "Hilary Ratner" <[email protected]>,

Whilst editing the soon-to-be-attached document, set it to read only
recommended.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic
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Hilary Ratner reckoned:

 

[hilary]

Hi Steve.

Thanks for your solution and that works well when I am the
sender. However, the problem seems to only arise when I
(using Office 2003) receive an attachment from someone
(using Office 2000).

Isn't that odd???

Hilary