Vista/MS Word 2007 and read-only

[markscalise]

Trying to open a Word file I created prior to installing Vista. The
file is on a separate partitioned drive from the op sys and has not
been moved, nor does it have a read-only attribute. Running Word 2007
under Vista, and Word opens the file as read-only. Is this a bug?

 

[Guest]

Since it is on a diff partition, Windows thinks it is on removable media so
will mark it as Read Only. Copy it to your Vista partition and it will open.
You might have to remove the Read Only tag.

 

[markscalise]

Since it is on a diff partition, Windows thinks it is on removable media so
will mark it as Read Only. Copy it to your Vista partition and it will open.
You might have to remove the Read Only tag.





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Thanks, that works. I don't recall Word 2007 doing that under XP. Is a
Vista issue?

 

[Guest]

Hi There, We seem to be having something similar (except with Office 2003 and
on a sbs 2003 network). Would this be the same error?

I would think that if so, it would be a rather large flaw if Vista seems all
external volumes as removable media. Anyway around this?

 

[Chad Harris]

Hi JC and Mark--

I've used several Betas of Office 2007 and now RTM on several builds of
Vista (now RTM), and this is an interesting, strange problem that I've never
encountered personally. I have no idea if this is more wide spread.

I checked the MSKBs and did not find this issue. I did find one MSKB that
is not directly on point, but did mention a read only problem that has to do
with protected docs and an editing restriction, and I linked it below. I
know the errorYou may want to post this on the MSFT Word group or Office
general group, because a large concentration of specialized Office mavens
who consult for a living and are authors on Office and Word hang in there.

If you're using WinMail or a box with OE to read the groups, you can search
by key words using View>find.

You receive a “This modification is not allowed because the document is
locked†error message when you modify a document in Word 2007 or in Word
2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818852/en-us

The reason I comment is that many times Vista has been on one drive, and I
have installed Office 2007 on another drive with no problems. The only
problems I have seen with regard to Vista and Office 2007,and they were a
pain and required manual uninstalls were with Office 2007 and One Note
trials that did not want to completely uninstall and interfered with
installing the RTMs.

Good luck,

CH

 

[Guest]

Hi Chad,

Thanks for the reply. Sorry to say that it is different. The actual message
that l get is " <file location / name> is being modified by <user>. Do you
want to open a read-only copy?"

Now, this does seem to happen mostly in PowerPoint 2003 (but has been seen
in Word 2003).

If you then re-open the file, it tents to work.

The strange thing is that of course l am offline and no one else is using
that file. If doing the exact same file with Windows XP ,it's fine. Thus l
suspect that it's to do with Office 2003 and Vista.
Any thoughts?

 

[Chad Harris]

JC--

It sure seems to be Office 2003 and Vista, and I'm not sure why. I hadn't
seen this error before. But if you pitch this on the

microsoft.public.word.newusers


(don't worry-- they solve many many problems that aren't beginner's
problems), I bet you get a good answer fast. There are a lot of word
mavens/consultants that solve problems all the time there.

CH

 

[Guest]

I've seen the same error message with Office 2007 on Vista opening files from
a network share. It will say that the user trying to open the file already
has it open and do they want to open a read only copy. I've had the issue
with multiple users since moving to Vista/Office 2007.