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I have read posting here about problems with editing documents but they
all seem to pertain to Office Versions.

I have two Windows Sharepoint Services sites.

On one, when I open a document by clicking on it's link (not clicking
edit in word) I get prompted for my user-name and password. Then the
document opens and the title bar reads "read-only". After editing the
file and selecting to save the file I get prompted for location and I
select the original location from when the file was opened and the file
saves back to the site with no problems.

On the second server when I click to open the file, same as above, the
document opens with no authentication required. After editing the
document I select save. Again I am prompted for location and I select
the original location then save. After doing this I get an error
message "Word cannot complete the save due to a file permission error.
(filename.doc)"

However, on both site when I open the file by selecting "edit in word",
the file is savable without any problems. I guess I could inform users
to do their edits this way, but it seems as though I should be able to
allow edits either way.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Brad Covelle · Guest

To disable the prompting, go to your IE settings and make the site a Trusted
Site this will automatically logon the user with their current username and
password.

If you just click on a document in SharePoint it will open in Read-Only as
you are experiencing, this is by design as SharePoint expects you only to
read it when you click on the document, and it expects if you want to Edit
the document to choose Edit in Microsoft Word from the dynamic drop down
list when you hover over the document. All by design.

When you open the document as Read-Only, again SharePoint doesn't expect you
to make changes to the document so when you try to Save it, it wants to
overwrite the document or it wants you to choose a different name or
location, just the way SharePoint works.

Not sure why you are getting that error on the Word document, but
nevertheless, you are doing something other than what SharePoint expects you
to do, and that's why it opens in Read-Only and gives you a file dialog box
when saving.

Ideally, you want users to choose Edit In Microsoft Word as then (when you
have versioning on) you can track changes made to the document. Of course
there's nothing wrong with the users opening it in Word as Read-Only,
modifying it and saving it back to SharePoint, just not what SharePoint
expects and when you save the document (and have versioning turned on) it
will overwrite the document in SharePoint and thus you will lose any
versioning of that document.

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Brad Covelle
NuSoft Solutions
bcovelle@nusoftsolutions.com
http://blogs.sagestone.net/bcovell

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wiechuuu · Guest

one of the documents may have been "checked out" by sb else, then you
can't overwrite it

wiechuuu · Guest

one of the documents may have been "checked out" by sb else, then you
can't overwrite it

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