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New to Win7: Trying to modify an Excel spreadsheet, I am told I have to logged on as "administrator" to save it.

Start > switch user gets me a big blue screen with just one icon on it, labeled "Norma" (That's me).

How do I set up an administrator?
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I think you have no admin rights jet.
Go to start, klik on the icon in the right kolone at the top (representing you)
This wiol take you to the "user accounts".
Here you will find your account.
Check if its a admin account. If not, change the account type.
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User accounts:
Shows one icon, labeled "Norma, Administrator"
Administer button is lit.
Change button is dimmed.

So, it says I am an administrator.
So, why won't it let me modify a file unless I am logged in as administrator?
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Thank you all.
This is an excel file created by a program and saved by the program in the same file as the exe. That may have something to do with it. C:\Program Files (x86)\<program name>\<file name>

Win7 may not like casual poking around in program files.

I copied the file elsewhere, did my changes, and copied it back (Saved a backup copy of the original first).
Got a message box saying that to copy it back I needed to give administrator permission (or something like that). There was a "Continue" command button. I clicked it.

Evidently that's the "permission". Sort of a "Are you sure?" step. The file copied back all right.

Like I said, I'm new at Win7. Still getting used to it.
My understanding is that I, as the only registered user, am automatically the "administrator".

- - Norma
@NormaPosy  - Thank you for the update and I was happy to help. I moved on from Windows 7 to Windows 8 but Seven is still a good operating system.
Even if you are the only user of a PC, never use an account with admin rights when using it normally, like you are doing now. Accounts that belong to the admin group should ONLY be used for specific admin tasks, nothing else. You should create a new user account that is a standard user, and logon to that account for day to day use. If some task needs admin rights, UAE will pop up a message, and there you can give the credentials of the account with admin rights, and it will do that task. If you don't do it that way, your PC is much easier for hacker and malware to attack. So I very strongly advise you to create a normal user account immediately, and only use that.