Microsoft KB Archive/220395

= WD2000: Password Options Are Not Available When Saving Web Page As a Word Document =

Article ID: 220395

Article Last Modified on 12/6/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q220395



SYMPTOMS
When you open a Web page for editing in Word and then try to save the file as a Word document, the file-sharing options for Password to open and Password to modify are turned off, and the following error message may appear:

This item is disabled because it's not supported by Web Browsers.



CAUSE
This behavior is by design. The file-sharing passwords that are available for Word documents are turned off within the Word interface when you are editing Web HTML files.

Password protection is a Word document feature and is not supported by other file formats. Saving a document to a format other than a Word document results in the loss of this protection.



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, save the file as a native Word document first without a password, and then file-sharing passwords can be applied to the document.

Keywords: kbnofix kbprb KB220395

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