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Anyone know what this means "WORD CAN NOT SAVE CHANGES DUE TO FILE PERMISSION ERROR " Iam trying to save something on Word

sorry I dont know

Are you trying to save it with symbols amongst the letters. Perhaps it does not like that?

Other than that I dont know what to suggest, sorry Ros.

Sorry Ros, I should read things better.

Have you altered a document and have asked to save it under the same name ?

Try saving it with a slightly different name. Again I dont quite know what to suggest. Hope someone can help you if my suggestion is useless lol

T x

ON MY OWN COMPUTER -NO-ONE ELSE USES IT !!

Stab in the dark here Ros, - have you somehow saved it as a 'read only' document before?
As has been suggested, try saving it under a different name.

Jusr looked on my 'word'
To open a document, workbook, or presentation with restricted permission.
On the File menu, point to Permission, and then click Unrestricted Access

OH checked -not read only , will try your suggestion, thanks

hi Rosalyn,

This sounds very much like the permissions have changed on the folder you're trying to save the file to.

Is this a simple home PC?
Are you saving the document to the internal disk drive, or are you trying to save it to a memory stick or something similar?

Try saving the doc to a different place, by selecting the following from the menu:

File => Save as .... => [click on a new folder location from the one that's displayed automatically in the little window that pops up]

If this doesn't work, you may somehow have accidentally changed all the file and folder permissions on your hard drive (not sure what you'd have done to make this happen, but it is possible). Alternatively, there could be a problem with your hard drive that's causing folder permissions to become corrupt; that could be serious!

Unfortunately, changing all these permissions is a little beyond the scope of what I can describe here - if you're a comparative novice (?) then it's rather complicated to explain without diagrams etc. If you still have trouble and want to PM me on here with your email address, I can send you some more instructions or we can try to work it though using MSN.

Bedtime here now, though I'm afraid, so message me tomorrow if it's practical to leave things unsaved until then.

Phil

Hi Ros,
Try C & P the info on the document into a new word doc & save this with a different name.

Steve

thanks folks , I`m not technical and hubby is, but not on Word Documents , he can do other things on computer no bother .He did resave for me the other night with a different name for documentsand has also put my writing onto CLICKFREE AUTOMATIC BACKUP up to the point it was playing up so not lost anything .Last night scribbled on paper my next 300 words so all is not lost , Ros xx

seems to be okay now-didn`t do anything to it -back to normal , wrote several hundred words tonight , saved no problem