From time to time, when I open a Word document, it is opened read-only. I have no idea why this happens. It is fairly infrequent (3-4 times a month) and seems random. At least, I cannot see any connection with anything else that is going on. If I close the document and immediately reopen it, it is rarely read-only the second time and I can proceed.
The problem is not so much that it is opened read-only, but that I don't notice it, so I go about merrily on editing the document. When I try to save it, I get the Save As dialog. Then I have to save it under a different name, delete the old copy, and rename the new one. In addition to a being royal pain, it screws up my archive log.
Is there a way that I can have Word warn me whenever a document is opened read only? If I could just get a warning, I could avoid making a lot of changes that I cannot save.
If there is no setting for this, can I write a macro that runs every time a document is opened, checks for the read-only status, and puts up a MsgBix or something? If this is possible, can someone show m the necessary code and where to put it?
Thanks
