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While editing a document in Word 2007 the document suddenly becomes read only

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Mar 15, 20261822 views
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For work, I received a new computer with Word 2007. As I'm working on a document, everything will be going normally (write a bit, save, write a bit, save, etc) but at some apparently random point, the document will suddently become read only. I can not isolate the trigger for this but I do know tha…

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Fix for: While editing a document in Word 2007 the document suddenly becomes read only

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Is it possible that an over-ambitious anti-virus, that is set to scan Office documents, locks the document every time you save it ? Try to disable the anti-virus for some time to see if this solves the problem.

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