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Help! Trying to load files for work, and the disc will not load. Works fine

on every other computer in the office, but not my Vista Home Premium. I did

install Office 2003 so I could open the file, but it comes up as a "read

only", and denies me when I uncheck the box for "read only". I need to be

able to save and e-mail these spread sheets. How can I do this?

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Thanks.

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    Copy the file from the disc to your hard drive, then open it.

    Files recorded to a CD are always "read only".

     

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    Carey Frisch

    Microsoft MVP

    Windows - Shell/User

     

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    "Mike H" wrote:

     

    Help! Trying to load files for work, and the disc will not load. Works fine

    on every other computer in the office, but not my Vista Home Premium. I did

    install Office 2003 so I could open the file, but it comes up as a "read

    only", and denies me when I uncheck the box for "read only". I need to be

    able to save and e-mail these spread sheets. How can I do this?

    --

    Thanks.

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    -- Thanks Carey. Both I and the boss have tryed to do that, but there seems

    to be a conflict with the Vista. Can you tell me how to copy to the hard

    drive? That's exactly what we have been trying to do, to no avail. I guess I

    need step by step instructions.

    Thanks.

     

     

    "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

    > Copy the file from the disc to your hard drive, then open it.

    > Files recorded to a CD are always "read only".

    >

    > --

    > Carey Frisch

    > Microsoft MVP

    > Windows - Shell/User

    >

    > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------­-----

    >

    > "Mike H" wrote:

    >

    > Help! Trying to load files for work, and the disc will not load. Works fine

    > on every other computer in the office, but not my Vista Home Premium. I did

    > install Office 2003 so I could open the file, but it comes up as a "read

    > only", and denies me when I uncheck the box for "read only". I need to be

    > able to save and e-mail these spread sheets. How can I do this?

    > --

    > Thanks.

    >

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    In Window Explorer, drag and drop.

    "Mike H" <MikeH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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    >

    > -- Thanks Carey. Both I and the boss have tryed to do that, but there

    > seems

    > to be a conflict with the Vista. Can you tell me how to copy to the hard

    > drive? That's exactly what we have been trying to do, to no avail. I guess

    > I

    > need step by step instructions.

    > Thanks.

    >

    >

    > "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

    >

    >> Copy the file from the disc to your hard drive, then open it.

    >> Files recorded to a CD are always "read only".

    >>

    >> --

    >> Carey Frisch

    >> Microsoft MVP

    >> Windows - Shell/User

    >>

    >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------­-----

    >>

    >> "Mike H" wrote:

    >>

    >> Help! Trying to load files for work, and the disc will not load. Works

    >> fine

    >> on every other computer in the office, but not my Vista Home Premium. I

    >> did

    >> install Office 2003 so I could open the file, but it comes up as a "read

    >> only", and denies me when I uncheck the box for "read only". I need to be

    >> able to save and e-mail these spread sheets. How can I do this?

    >> --

    >> Thanks.

    >>

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    "Mike H" <MikeH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

    news:099293BC-A53B-4B79-9A3E-5323B2832EA5@microsoft.com...

    >

    > -- Thanks Carey. Both I and the boss have tryed to do that, but there

    > seems

    > to be a conflict with the Vista. Can you tell me how to copy to the hard

    > drive? That's exactly what we have been trying to do, to no avail. I guess

    > I

    > need step by step instructions.

    > Thanks.

    >

    >

    > "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

    >

    >> Copy the file from the disc to your hard drive, then open it.

    >> Files recorded to a CD are always "read only".

    >>

    >> --

    >> Carey Frisch

    >> Microsoft MVP

    >> Windows - Shell/User

    >>

    >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------­-----

    >>

    >> "Mike H" wrote:

    >>

    >> Help! Trying to load files for work, and the disc will not load. Works

    >> fine

    >> on every other computer in the office, but not my Vista Home Premium. I

    >> did

    >> install Office 2003 so I could open the file, but it comes up as a "read

    >> only", and denies me when I uncheck the box for "read only". I need to be

    >> able to save and e-mail these spread sheets. How can I do this?

    >> --

    >> Thanks.

    >>

     

     

    Click the Start Orb

     

    Click "Help and Support"

     

    Click "Windows Basics"

     

    Under "Programs, files, and folders" heading...

     

    Click "Working with Files and folders"

     

    Click "Copying and moving files and folders"

     

    Read.

     

    One thing to keep in mind is that Vista's security setting's may prevent you

    from copying files to specific directories (folders). The folders you

    can -always- copy to are the logged on user's "user folders." If you're

    logged on as "Mike," then there's going to be a "Mike" folder in the "Users"

    folder on your system drive. (Most likely the C: drive, but not always...)

    You may, depending on how your PC's configured at the moment, have a "Mike"

    folder on your desktop. If not, then there will be a button named "Mike" on

    the Start Orb menu, in the right hand column, right at the top. Click on

    that to open the "Mike" folder.

     

    Drill into whichever folder you need to... documents, for example. Then open

    another window for the CD drive. You should be able to select the

    folders/files in the CD drive window and "drag" them over to the

    Mike\Documents folder. Dragging is simply clicking the mouse button on one

    of the selected folders/files and -without releasing- the mouse button, move

    it over to the other window. You should see, oh, I don't know what they're

    called... shadow (?) representations of the folders/files as you drag the

    mouse pointer. When the mouse pointer is over the window/folder to which you

    want to copy the files, -then- release the mouse button.

     

    Do read the Windows help on copying/moving folders/files... depending on the

    "copy from" and "copy to" locations, the drag and drop functionality acts

    differently and I'm not going into that right here and now.

     

    Good luck,

     

    Lang

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