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How to save a document as "read-only"?

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fmartinez Posted messages 170 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
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Good evening,
I reopened a .doc document to modify it. Its saving is denied to me because it is "read-only" and therefore reserved for the administrator. However, since I switched from Windows 7 to 10, I only have one account (previously I had "administrator" and "guest").
I do not understand why my document opened in read-only mode:
- how to make it editable to save my work?
- how to ensure that this does not happen anymore?
- how to open a "guest" account
- how to set/change the opening status of documents to read/write?

Thank you for your help!

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    m@rina Posted messages 27560 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   11 562
     
    Hello,

    Close the document, then right-click on it and select "Properties". Uncheck Read-only.

    m@rina

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    1. fmartinez Posted messages 170 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   11
       
      Thank you! That may be true for a document that's just been opened (I'll keep that in mind for the future...).
      But in my case, if I close my deeply modified and unsaved document, I will lose my work!
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    2. m@rina Posted messages 27560 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   11 562
       
      Well, you simply do a Save As to save it under a new name.
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      1. fmartinez Posted messages 170 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   11 > m@rina Posted messages 27560 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention  
         
        I tried it from the start: the save has always been denied to me!
        I even tried to copy the document onto a USB drive and get it sent to me via Gmail: the save of the document received as an attachment was still denied to me!
        I also tried to copy+paste into a new blank document, which I could then save under a different name, but I lost my formatting.
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    3. m@rina Posted messages 27560 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   11 562
       
      It is indeed a document owner issue. It is, in fact, a Windows problem and not a Word one. It's a matter of rights.

      If you copy and paste into a new document, there is no reason to lose the formatting; just set the correct margins, the right paper size, etc., in the new document.
      Now, if the original document is not well-structured, you may indeed lose especially the formatting. Have you tried copying while selecting "Keep source formatting"?

      m@rina
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