Microsoft KB Archive/40907

Word: File Incorrectly Loaded Read-Only

PSS ID Number: Q40907 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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When Word is started using the /l switch, it incorrectly treats a file whose read-only attribute was removed as a read-only file.

To reproduce this problem, do the following:


 * 1) Load a read-only file into Word.
 * 2) Quit Word while this file is loaded.
 * 3) Remove the read-only attribute from the file with the DOS Attrib command.
 * 4) Start Word with the /l switch. When the file loads, Word thinks it is still read-only.

In the MW.INI file, Word records that the file was opened read-only. Consequently, when Word is started again with the /l switch, it knows only that it should load the file and that the last time Word loaded the file, the file was read-only.

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