To edit your Word Docs, you can:
1. Change the attribute (R-click the file, uncheck the read-only
attribute). I believe you can do many at once.
2. Save the doc under a different name.


Carol wrote:
> Cheetah,
> All my documents are .doc, and always have been, and when I go into  file
> types, it has .doc set as the extension for WordPad, so that looks ok.
>
> Once you install the Word Viewer on your system, you can no longer edit any
> of your documents, so it seems to me that it changes them.   I can't
> imagine
> why anyone would want to install it.  I got rid of it right away, once I
> saw
> that it basically turned them into 'read only'.
>
> I have DSL and O.O. downloaded fast enough.  I think the problem was that I
> didn't have Java.  Since I downloaded that,  one of my other problems
> resolved.  One that will probably be posted here.  I submitted it
> yesterday,
> but it hasn't come through yet, but it's resolved now.
>
> So, I'm back to square one with the documents problem, I guess.
> Carol Hanson
>
>> Hi Carol,
>>
>> Sorry it didn't work. I don't have Paul's message handy (just this
>> morning
>> I decided to clean up my laptop and archived a lot of stuff including all
>> my old emails) - was his suggestion to try setting the WIndows XP
>> compatibility, not the Wordpad one ? Of course as I understand that
>> compatibility mode relates to program installation and execution so the
>> suggestion may not help your case.
>>
>> I have also seen your message indicating you had download problems with
>> OO,
>> so can't try that suggestion . My sympathies. I used to have perpetual
>> problems in downloading large files - in the end what really helped
>> was to
>> use a download manager (I use "Download Manager" which is free, and it
>> works. There are others, of course). Of course, what really, really
>> helped
>> was to switch my Internet connection from dial-up to Cable. Made a huge
>> difference to both speed and quality.
>>
>> On the Wordpad document problem, as Gene points out, the Word "Viewer"
>> does
>> not alter any file at all and so using it in the past to view your files
>> should not have caused any problem. I suspect the problem may just be in
>> the file association set up in your Windows XP.  I assume your Wordpad
>> files are all RTF files; do check the file association for RTF files -
>> and
>> try changing it especially if when you look you find the association is
>> set
>> to MS-Word! In Windows Explorer, click "Tools" then "Folder Options". In
>> the "Folder Options" go to the "File Types" tab and then scroll down
>> until
>> you find RTF (or whatever extension your Wordpad files end with).
>>
>> If that fails, try Bob's suggestion, to get an  inexpensive copy of an
>> Word
>> version (I think it's a great suggestion) but you need to verify that the
>> version of Word you're buying will in fact work with Windows XP.
>>
>> Good luck -
>>
>> = Cheeta
>>
>
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