office small business edition 1997

[gasew]

i have installed office smal business edition on my new computer (running windows 7) and when i try to save my work it tells me i can't because it is read only. how can i solve this problem?

[soybean]

Did you previously put a password on this file?

[gasew]

no. ihave just put it on the computer and it has worked straight away previously

[gasew]

i think i have found the problem. I am trying to save to iomega external hard drive and that is what it won't let me save to. it says i don't have permission.?? help??? is the harddrive faulty??? i only got it a couple of days ago??? ihaven't been able to save anything on it since connecting it? have just tried saving to computers own hard drive and that is ok

[cruisin702]

Have you tried copying the file from the computer harddrive to the external?

[gasew]

yes just tried that and it says i don't have permission to save it

[cruisin702]

Is it just office docs or can you not save any kind of files to the external?

[gasew]

just tried to save web page and got the same thing.thanks for taking the time to try and help

[cruisin702]

Sounds like a permissions issue. Try right clicking on the Iomega in My Computer and clicking on properties. I think there should be a Security tab to set read/write access.

[gasew]

thank you so much. it is now working. it was not set to take files straight from word. it is fine now i think. will let you know if i get firther problems. you are a life saver!! thanks again

[soybean]

thank you so much. it is now working. it was not set to take files straight from word. it is fine now i think. will let you know if i get firther problems. you are a life saver!! thanks again

So, are you saying you can't save a Word file directly to the iomega external hard drive but you can copy the Word to the iomega external hard drive once you've saved it to your internal hard drive?