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MS Office documents suddenly become read-only

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Mar 15, 202646725 views

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Possible Duplicate: While editing a document in Word 2007 the document suddenly becomes read only This is really annoying. When I work on a Word or Powerpoint document in MS Office 2007, after a while, the document becomes read-only by itself. As to how I learn this: When I try to save the document…

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I would check for any processes like a virus checker or a network backup. Any process that accesses the file will fool office into thinking it is being shared, and thus revert it to read only until it can gain exclusive access again.

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MS Office documents suddenly become read-only

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