Saving Excel Sprdsht to CD between 2 PC's

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Ceci Vaughan

I'm having trouble saving a spreadsheet on one PC and my
work-partner pulling it up on hers, modifying it from the
CD and saving it back to the CD.

Error message "read only" keeps coming up but when I look
in the properties of the document it is marked archive
instead of read only.

Please help me understand how we can fix this problem.
We're both on Dell PC's w/ XP OS's.

Thanks.
 
Ceci

First of all.......you should never save to or open from removable media
directly.

Save to HDD then copy to the CD. Same when opening. Copy to HDD then open.

The read only bit.......

That is the default behaviour when saving/copying to CD.

All depends upon how the files get "burned" to the CD.

With regular Windows burning, they will always be read-only.

If you were to use a packet writing application like Nero InCD, files would
not be read only and individual files could be erased or written to on the CD
just like a big floppy disk.

See this google search thread

http://snipurl.com/6llq

Note the link to Alex Nicholl's site.

Also http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/cdr_info.htm

Gord Dibben Excel MVP
 
Hi Ceci,
It is up to the program whether it is read only or not,
XCOPY for instance will not set the read only bit unless
you ask it to. Dragging a file with Windows will set the
Read Only bit when copied to a CD-R. None of the software
I use sets the read only bit (packet writing).

To turn off the read only bit once you've copied from the
CD back to a hard drive and you have read only files.
Files Restored from a CD backup reported as Read-Only (#readonly)
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/backup.htm#readonly
 
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