I’m not sure how widespread this problem is, but I’ve seen it a few times, and one of my work colleagues gets it regularly: • You’re happily working in a Word 2007 document, saving as you go, when all of a sudden you can’t save as you get a message that the document is set to ‘read-only’ • You save and close a Word 2007 document, re-open it, work on it, try to save it again but get the ‘read-only’ message. The workaround I’ve used to date has been to do a ‘save as’ and save the document with a slightly different file name. However, after my colleague said that she’s getting the message all the time on a specific document, it was time for me to go off to Google and check if anyone else gets this and how they solved it. Here are some possible solutions I found: • Turn off Allow Background Saves. There may be a conflict with when you do a manual save and the automatic save ( Microsoft Office button > Word Options > Advanced > Save subsection).

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Thanks for the reply. I tried using 'Set your default programs', but Microsoft Word didn't appear (Outlook was the only MS Office program in the list). Then I tried 'Set Associations' and.docx files are set to open in Word, but there's still no MS Word icon on.docx files when I view them in Windows Explorer. Microsoft Word provides different views of your document, including a two-page layout that resembles an open book. You can also view a page from two different documents for a side-by-side comparison.

• Turn off AutoRecover ( Microsoft Office button > Word Options > Save > Save AutoRecover information every xx minutes). • Check the General Options settings for the document ( Microsoft Office button > Save As > Tools drop-down [to the immediate left of the Save button] > General Options > clear the Read-only Recommended check box if it’s checked — no, I had NO idea this option existed either!).

Click the individual screen shots below to see these steps in full size. • Reboot your computer and immediately check your Temp and Templates folders for lurking temporary files not deleted properly (don’t open any Office applications until after you’ve done this — your Temp folder should be empty after a fresh reboot). Your Temp folder is located here: C: Users AppData Local Temp. Also check in C: Users AppData Roaming Microsoft Templates to make sure that there are no temp files there too. Temp files are easy to spot — they have a tilde ( ~) in front of the file name and have a tmp file extension. • Try saving to your My Documents folder (if you normally save to a network location or some other folder) to see if this makes any difference. • Make sure the document you have open is not sitting inside a Zip file.

• Check Windows Explorer and make sure you don’t have the document open in Preview Pane view as this will lock it (in Vista, open Windows Explorer and go to Organize > Layout > Preview pane). • Make sure the document you are trying to save is not an Outlook attachment that’s still open in Outlook. • Set your anti-virus software to not scan Office 2007 files. Personally, I’d try this one as a last resort; also, in some corporate environments, you may not be able to change your AV settings. Other information: This happens to people using Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7, so it doesn’t appear to be related to the operating system, just to Word 2007 and later (and possibly other Office 2007 and later documents?). I’m having this same problem ever since Office 2007 was installed on my machine.

It happens at the most inconvenient time — frequently when up against deadlines. It is very frustrating when I have to interrupt my thoughts and dick with trying to save a document, then try to resume where I left off before being so inconsiderately interrupted with such prevalent nonsense that should have been fixed years ago. I always have several documents open at the same time, and one of the documents will flip to Read-Only for no reason. Of course, you don’t find out until you try to do a manual save or close the document. Interestingly, I go to Windows Explorer, right-click on the file and then click Properties. The Read-only box is, of course, not checked. And, as it seems with everybody else, you cannot save the document.