Lots (all??) of CDs work that way.

I just copy the file to the local harddrive and change the attributes there.

mmjjmm wrote:

Every time I try to save a workbook to a cd to use at work, the file is saved
as a read only file. When I try to change the property by clearing the read
only box, an error message comes up that access to the file is denied ans the
function is not allowed

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Dave Peterson