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how do I unlock the selection?
ginny1956 10/16/2008 9:36:01 PM
I am on day 3 of a 60 day trial for Office 2007 (standard). I created the
document in 2003 on a different computer, saved it to a flash drive, then put
it on the new computer with 2007. It will open the document but not allow me
to do anything with it. It says that the selection is locked. How do i undo
this, and keep it from happening again with a new document?
thanks
Re: how do I unlock the selection?
"Gordon" <gordonbparker[ at ]yahoo.com.invalid> 10/17/2008 7:17:05 AM
"ginny1956" <ginny1956[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text]
>I am on day 3 of a 60 day trial for Office 2007 (standard). I created the
> document in 2003 on a different computer, saved it to a flash drive, then
> put
> it on the new computer with 2007. It will open the document but not allow
> me
> to do anything with it. It says that the selection is locked. How do i
> undo
> this, and keep it from happening again with a new document?
> thanks


Have you activated the trial?

Re: how do I unlock the selection?
"Rich/rerat" <rrr_news[ at ]isp.com> 10/17/2008 10:40:14 AM
ginny1956,
1. Right click the Word 2003 file that you transferred to PC that is using
Office 2007. Make sure that the under Properties, that the "Read-Only"
Attribute for the file is uncheck.

You should also make a habit, while you are using the Trial version of
Office 2007, to save a copy of anything that you create using Office 2007
program, in the Word 97-2003 format also. Just in case you do not purchase
the 2007 version. You will be able to use these files that you created, on
PC's that use an earlier version of MS Word.

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"ginny1956" <ginny1956[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4F58E74D-6AD0-4C94-AAF4-809073471D75[ at ]microsoft.com...
I am on day 3 of a 60 day trial for Office 2007 (standard). I created the
document in 2003 on a different computer, saved it to a flash drive, then
put
it on the new computer with 2007. It will open the document but not allow me
to do anything with it. It says that the selection is locked. How do i undo
this, and keep it from happening again with a new document?
thanks

Re: how do I unlock the selection?
"Gordon" <gordonbparker[ at ]yahoo.com.invalid> 10/17/2008 10:48:42 AM
"Rich/rerat" <rrr_news[ at ]isp.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text]
>
> You should also make a habit, while you are using the Trial version of
> Office 2007, to save a copy of anything that you create using Office 2007
> program, in the Word 97-2003 format also. Just in case you do not purchase
> the 2007 version. You will be able to use these files that you created, on
> PC's that use an earlier version of MS Word.

No need. You can download and install the Office Compatibility pack....

Re: how do I unlock the selection?
"Rich/rerat" <rrr_news[ at ]isp.com> 10/18/2008 2:34:17 PM
Gordon,
The following statement:
"You will be able to use these files that you created, on PC's that use an
earlier version of MS Word."

Should have been written as:

"You, and anyone that you share these files with, will be able to use these
files that you created, on PC's that use an earlier version of MS Word that
do not have Office Compatibility Pack installed. Or use a compatible
third-party word processor program that can open and edit Word documents,
which the Office Compatibility Pack can not be installed on."

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"Gordon" <gordonbparker[ at ]yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message
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"Rich/rerat" <rrr_news[ at ]isp.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text]
>
> You should also make a habit, while you are using the Trial version of
> Office 2007, to save a copy of anything that you create using Office 2007
> program, in the Word 97-2003 format also. Just in case you do not purchase
> the 2007 version. You will be able to use these files that you created, on
> PC's that use an earlier version of MS Word.

No need. You can download and install the Office Compatibility pack....

Re: how do I unlock the selection?
"Gordon" <gordonbparker[ at ]yahoo.com.invalid> 10/18/2008 4:00:20 PM
"Rich/rerat" <rrr_news[ at ]isp.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text]
> Gordon,
> The following statement:
> "You will be able to use these files that you created, on PC's that use an
> earlier version of MS Word."
>
> Should have been written as:
>
> "You, and anyone that you share these files with, will be able to use
> these
> files that you created, on PC's that use an earlier version of MS Word
> that
> do not have Office Compatibility Pack installed. Or use a compatible
> third-party word processor program that can open and edit Word documents,
> which the Office Compatibility Pack can not be installed on."
>


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