Read Only Error message

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Paul Lockhart

I have created a document that I want my workgroup to make
changes. The problem is everybody that tries to open the
document, it comes up "Read Only". How do I make the
document become available for everyone to use without
having the document come up read only?
 
Paul said:
I have created a document that I want my workgroup to make
changes. The problem is everybody that tries to open the
document, it comes up "Read Only". How do I make the
document become available for everyone to use without
having the document come up read only?
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You can't. Only one person can have a document open for editing at a time.

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Simple enough. Is there a work around?
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You can't. Only one person can have a document open for editing at a time.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
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If two people are editing the document and both save their changes at the same time, which set of changes do you want to be saved if they conflict? eg: person A deletes three bullet points from the document introduction whilst person B adds two extra bullet points and writes an explanation for all five. - Unless Word knows who 'owns' the document it can't know who's changes take priority - hence the read only status. There is no workaround because Word is an editor not a document management system

However, if you want several people to make changes having reviewed the document and they can work sequentially then take a look at tracking changes and email for review

Reg
 
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