De-activating read-only in Microsoft products

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Raymond Rife

I had a IT person come and set up my new Dell Laptop Precision. Set-up went
well. For some reason, I overlooked purchasing Office with my order, and
had to go out and buy Office Profesional Edition 2003 and had it installed.
My files were all transferred from my old machine, also a Dell on Microsoft
Office. Now I can open and read my files, but I can not save them. When I
do, I get a message says there have been changes that will affect the normal
global template and that the file is read only and permission is needed to
save the changes from the system administrator (me). The instructions for
changing it tell me to go the the "prompt to save Normal Template" box under
Tools/Options/Save, and uncheck that box but that box is unchecked. I have
searched for the set-up box that alows me to change the settings, but have
not located it (after working with it for 6 hours). Is there anyone who has
anu ideas of how to troubleshoot this situation. At this point, I am unable
to work any files because the system will not allow me to save them as word
documents, and when I save them as in the normal template, the changes are
not intact.

Ray Rife
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When I do, I get
a message says there have been changes that will affect the normal
global template and that the file is read only and permission is
needed to save the changes from the system administrator (me).
The instructions for changing it tell me to go the the "prompt to
save Normal Template" box under Tools/Options/Save, and uncheck
that box but that box is unchecked.
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Check the location of user templates. Is it defined to a location used
by more than one person? Either way, check the workgroup templates
setting and set it to the same folder location, close out of Word and
reboot and see if the error goes away.

Adam
 
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