Read only after upgrade

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I recently replaced my hard drive. I believe that I used
to have Office 97 on my old drive. I can no longer find
the disk so I went out and bought Office 2003. I copied
all my word and excel documents from my old drive to a CD
when I copied them back to my new drive they all
became "read only" (they were archive on the old drive)
appart from going through and opening each document and
saving it under another name does anyone know how I can
solve this problem so they revert to the
attribute 'Archive'? Thanks.. and if any one has any idea
why this might have happened and what to do to prevent
this from happening again it would be appreciated.

Thanks
Lynn
 
Go to Tools > Options > Security (tab), uncheck "Read Only-Recommended".

Andre Da Costa
Jamaica W.I.
 
In the Windows Explorer group the files, (click the first file, press
and hold Shift, click the last file), right-click on the group and
select Properties. On the General tab clear the "Read only" attribute.
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The recommendation by Andre is mistaken. It would be correct if the way
these files were made read-only was through the Word commands he tells you
to use. These file properties were not set in Word and can't be easily
changed within Word. It is a Windows (DOS) attribute. All files on CD-ROMs
are "read-only." When you drag/copy files from a CD-ROM to a hard-drive,
this attribute is copied with the files. If you use XCOPY or XXCOPY to copy
them, it need not be.

To follow up on Beth's recommendation, you can select all of the files in a
folder within Windows and clear the "read-only" checkmark in them all at the
same time by right-clicking on one of the selected files and choosing
properties. To do multiple folders at the same time requires use of the DOS
ATTRIB command.
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