Excel 2010 file read only
Surprisingly I could not find this with a search. Some, not all, Excel files created by myself will not let me save them because they are read only. I have unchecked everything in the Trust Center. I found references to the "Microsoft Office Button", which leads to Backstage, but cannot find it! And the description implies it is nothing more then the Options Trust Center GUI anyway. I either get "read only" or "Cannot save to this location, do you want to save in your Documents?"
uSoft just really makes it hard to manage files when I created them, and am the only user of this machine in my home office.
Office 2010
Windows 8.1Pro
Toshiba notebook
uSoft just really makes it hard to manage files when I created them, and am the only user of this machine in my home office.
Office 2010
Windows 8.1Pro
Toshiba notebook
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I did create it, and it was never saved to anything except a local HDD. However this is a new machine, so I copied several hundred K files from the old machine to this one. But the read only box was not checked, and I went through each drive (I have five logical drives) and made sure everyone on planet earth had permission. It is consistent on a given file, but the ones with the problem are a small %. Still, I need them to save after modification.
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Yes. I had done that before. I was hoping to figure out what causes this but no use driving it to the ground when there is a work around. I was trying to avoid saving under a new name, deleting the old file, then renaming the new one. Thanks for your time.
Thanks Mike, and I was happy to help.
If you had saved the problem files to a CD / DVD, that makes them read only. I think when you bring them back, they remain read only.
Using Windows Explorer, find a problem file, right click on it, select Properties, uncheck the read only box. Now see if you can open the file, work on it and save it normally.