In my experience, all files written to CDROM (inlcuding rewritables) have
the read-only attribute set.

Excel sees this attribute and flags the workbook read-only.

You would have to copy the file to a writable device (such as C: drive)

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Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel


"BP" wrote in message
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Every time I save my workbooks to CD, they become read-only on the CD even
though thats not what I saved them as. I cannot change the status because
it
says "access denied" when I attempt to change the file saved on CD. How
can
I save my workbooks to CD so that I can edit and continue to work with
them?