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Posted by lostsailor on March 27, 2003, at 13:51:31
I am having a real pain with Word docs. lately. Everytime I go to open a "new office document " in Word the same text (a paper I wrote a few weeks ago) no matter what I do. I have searched thru Help and think I locked it somehow, but even following what seems to be the right direction nothing changes. I don't see any lock icon on the page that the helper seems to indicate.
I know that it must be to prevent others from altering the content, for example a workgroup. You are allowed to erase the entire doc and remame it or add to it a save the new text but, the next new doc I try to create, opens showing me the original text from earlier this month.
After dling what seems like three hundred patches for my Windows XP version, I want to trhow bags of manure on Sir Gates front lawn. Oh, it also will not let me delete the original using dos commands, either.
UUGGG...~tony
Posted by lil' jimi on March 28, 2003, at 16:14:49
In reply to ISO of an expert on MS word (office 2000) version, posted by lostsailor on March 27, 2003, at 13:51:31
> I am having a real pain with Word docs. lately. Everytime I go to open a "new office document " in Word the same text (a paper I wrote a few weeks ago) no matter what I do. I have searched thru Help and think I locked it somehow, but even following what seems to be the right direction nothing changes. I don't see any lock icon on the page that the helper seems to indicate.
>
> I know that it must be to prevent others from altering the content, for example a workgroup. You are allowed to erase the entire doc and remame it or add to it a save the new text but, the next new doc I try to create, opens showing me the original text from earlier this month.
>
> After dling what seems like three hundred patches for my Windows XP version, I want to trhow bags of manure on Sir Gates front lawn. Oh, it also will not let me delete the original using dos commands, either.
>
> UUGGG...~tonyhey tony,
try this: look for the document's own icon, inside its folder, on the desktop, where ever... select it and right click on it... pop up menu should give choices including one for "Properties"... click on 'Properties' ... in the Properties window see the boxes at the bottom for "Attributes"... try unchecking the one for "Read Only"... hope this works for you ... or that you solved it already.
~ jim
Posted by lostsailor on March 28, 2003, at 16:47:40
In reply to Re: ISO of an expert on MS word (office 2000) version » lostsailor, posted by lil' jimi on March 28, 2003, at 16:14:49
stall??? What a pain...lol, In a Purple Haze, ~tony
Posted by lil' jimi on March 28, 2003, at 18:13:12
In reply to ty, jimi, but read only isn't checked. think rein, posted by lostsailor on March 28, 2003, at 16:47:40
> stall??? What a pain...lol, In a Purple Haze, ~tony
tone-man,
okay... and you tried to throw away the document's icon, i guess that didn't work either ... maybe it thinks your document is your default page setup? ... nah, too weird ... i suffer with XP Pro also, but i have Office XP with it ...so, i agree with you: reinstalling your Word is the best idea... that should certainly work anyway ... i hope.
i feel the same way about Gatescrosoft ... <expletives deleted>!
i want to get a real computer os ... that jobs guy has a pretty good one.
let me know if you want anymore of my guesses!
~ jim
Posted by paxvox on March 28, 2003, at 20:44:03
In reply to Re: ty, jimi, but read only isn't checked. think , posted by lil' jimi on March 28, 2003, at 18:13:12
Go to microsoft.com and look for repairs, upgrades. You may be able to find a patch there. If I were looking at what you were doing, I could probably figure it out, as I use Word and Excel a lot. But from a distance, I cannot figure out what may be the problem.
PAX
Posted by IsoM on March 29, 2003, at 13:03:49
In reply to ISO of an expert on MS word (office 2000) version, posted by lostsailor on March 27, 2003, at 13:51:31
Sorry, Tony, but I haven't been around much - too busy. What you wrote was a puzzle for me too so I asked my programming son who said it was a "little" weird, definitely. Here's his suggestion, if it doesn't work, chalk it up to aliens (aka Bill Gates). Windows XP is screwy at times with no accountable reasons for what it does. It still has lots of bugs. I'd phone their help service & tell them what you think & ask for it fixed.
Here's the suggestions:
1. I don't know if you can do this but perhaps when you saved it once (or any other document), you may have saved it as a "template" by accident, or by default (Word's fault). All new documents will be saved off that template. You could go in & check to see if that's the case.2. If your computer crashed or shut down when you'd been previously working on ANY document, Word has the ability to recover that lost document if it wasn't saved (as I'm sure you know). Then when it tried to autorecover, it could've gotten locked in the mode where it automatically edits any other document you save & then open again. This is getting a little far fetched but we can't figure anything else out.
I'd suggest re-doing your personal settings on Word so it doesn't use the default settings, in case it's reverted. Maybe if everything gets reset (again), it won't occur? Sorry, but grasping at straws.
Posted by lil' jimi on March 29, 2003, at 13:23:18
In reply to Re: ISO of an expert on MS word (office 2000) version » lostsailor, posted by IsoM on March 29, 2003, at 13:03:49
> Sorry, Tony, but I haven't been around much - too busy. What you wrote was a puzzle for me too so I asked my programming son who said it was a "little" weird, definitely. Here's his suggestion, if it doesn't work, chalk it up to aliens (aka Bill Gates). Windows XP is screwy at times with no accountable reasons for what it does. It still has lots of bugs. I'd phone their help service & tell them what you think & ask for it fixed.
>
> Here's the suggestions:
> 1. I don't know if you can do this but perhaps when you saved it once (or any other document), you may have saved it as a "template" by accident, or by default (Word's fault). All new documents will be saved off that template. You could go in & check to see if that's the case.
>
> 2. If your computer crashed or shut down when you'd been previously working on ANY document, Word has the ability to recover that lost document if it wasn't saved (as I'm sure you know). Then when it tried to autorecover, it could've gotten locked in the mode where it automatically edits any other document you save & then open again. This is getting a little far fetched but we can't figure anything else out.
>
> I'd suggest re-doing your personal settings on Word so it doesn't use the default settings, in case it's reverted. Maybe if everything gets reset (again), it won't occur? Sorry, but grasping at straws.
tony, isoM, pax,but excellent straw-grasping, IMHO, especially with pax' good suggestion to check the MS Xp site, which does offer a lot.
i guess MS has to have Office 2000 compatible with XP... i went to Office XP when i went to Win XP ... which is no help to you...
rebel that i am, i run AppleWorks in XP just to spite the MS gremlins ... okay i'm alittle paranoid ... also no help to our lostsailor, but maybe some entertainment value ... (beside my p3 XP dell, i also have OS X on my iMac ...)
let us hear how it gets resolved.
~ ... jim
Posted by lostsailor on March 29, 2003, at 13:32:53
In reply to Re: ISO of an expert on MS word (office 2000) version » lostsailor, posted by IsoM on March 29, 2003, at 13:03:49
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