clearing "read only" from worksheet
 

I have a new laptop which is running on Vista. I installed Office 2003 and
everything was OK. Now, all of my Excel worksheets are coming up as "read
only".
I can neither edit them or save them as a different file. These are my
personal files and were never saved as read only.
I have downloaded all the updates and hotfixes but I still can't clear the
files. Have also checked properties and none of the files are saved as read
only.
Any ideas??

clearing "read only" from worksheet
 

"everything was OK"

For how long?

When did the readonly start coming up?

Between OK and now, what changes have you made to your OS?

Did you ever burn the files to CD?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:08:01 -0700, kitkat
wrote:

I have a new laptop which is running on Vista. I installed Office 2003 and
everything was OK. Now, all of my Excel worksheets are coming up as "read
only".
I can neither edit them or save them as a different file. These are my
personal files and were never saved as read only.
I have downloaded all the updates and hotfixes but I still can't clear the
files. Have also checked properties and none of the files are saved as read
only.
Any ideas??

clearing "read only" from worksheet
 

This problem started over this past weekend. I saved some of the files to a
memory stick and everything seemed ok.

I have made no changes to the OS with the exception of the update downloads
and the hotfix for excel 2003

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

"everything was OK"

For how long?

When did the readonly start coming up?

Between OK and now, what changes have you made to your OS?

Did you ever burn the files to CD?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:08:01 -0700, kitkat
wrote:

I have a new laptop which is running on Vista. I installed Office 2003 and
everything was OK. Now, all of my Excel worksheets are coming up as "read
only".
I can neither edit them or save them as a different file. These are my
personal files and were never saved as read only.
I have downloaded all the updates and hotfixes but I still can't clear the
files. Have also checked properties and none of the files are saved as read
only.
Any ideas??

clearing "read only" from worksheet
 

Are you opening directly from the memory stick?

If so, copy back to HDD and try opening.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:04:03 -0700, kitkat
wrote:

This problem started over this past weekend. I saved some of the files to a
memory stick and everything seemed ok.

I have made no changes to the OS with the exception of the update downloads
and the hotfix for excel 2003

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

"everything was OK"

For how long?

When did the readonly start coming up?

Between OK and now, what changes have you made to your OS?

Did you ever burn the files to CD?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:08:01 -0700, kitkat
wrote:

I have a new laptop which is running on Vista. I installed Office 2003 and
everything was OK. Now, all of my Excel worksheets are coming up as "read
only".
I can neither edit them or save them as a different file. These are my
personal files and were never saved as read only.
I have downloaded all the updates and hotfixes but I still can't clear the
files. Have also checked properties and none of the files are saved as read
only.
Any ideas??