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From: Richard Goodwin (no email)
Date: Sun Sep 02 2001 - 11:24:37 EDT
> I finished editing the text and gave the disk back to Jan. When she got it
> up on her machine the text still had the yellow behind each character (the
> spaces between paragraphs and the margins had no yellow, only characters,
> including spaces). Jan says she has had this problem before with files
> carried between machines. She has been unable to clear this yellow
> background.
I can produce the same effect by selecting some text, then clicking on
the "Highlight" icon, which by default is set to yellow. Selecting the
highlighted text and clicking on the "Highlight" icon again clears it.
Dunno if this is what you have, but the description is exactly the same
as what I am looking at here.
> The second problem she has is that she has a Word file that cannot be edited
> because she gets a message saying that the file is "Locked for editing by
> Jan".
I can get this effect by doing the following:
Make a file, then click on "File -> Save as". A "Save As" window comes
up to let you supply a filename. It also has a button called
"Options...". If you click on "Options...", you get another window
called "Save", which lets you put in a "Password to modify:". If you
put a password in that field, then next time you open the file, you get
a little window that says:
"'<filename>' is reserved by <user>"
"Enter password to modify, or open read only."
Password: __________________
Buttons: "OK" "Cancel" "Read Only"
This sounds similar to your description. If you click "Read Only", it
should give you the file, but not let you save it again, so you can't
change the file on disk.
If you click "Cancel" it doesn't open the file, and if you supply the
proper password, then you get full access to the file.
A way around it if you forgot the password would be to bring up the file
in "Read Only" mode, then cut/paste the entire file to a new file, and
save that one, being sure that there is no password selected in the
"Save As" Options... window.
But if Word crashes rather than lets you get at the Read Only version,
then, well..., better talk to Billy Gates Gruff.
Could always try to guess at the password.
Dick
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