MS - Vista Office

I was told to post my question here by another newsgroup.

I have several new users running Vista. They can access items on our local
server, AutoCAD, pdf's etc... but can only access word and excel items as
read only. They have full rights to the folders and files, and a few of the
files were orginially create by the same user in XP.

It says read only and cannot change anything on the docs, and excel sheets
without having to rename them first.
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Dave

Dave wrote:
> I was told to post my question here by another newsgroup.
>
> I have several new users running Vista. They can access items on our local
> server, AutoCAD, pdf's etc... but can only access word and excel items as
> read only. They have full rights to the folders and files, and a few of the
> files were orginially create by the same user in XP.
>
> It says read only and cannot change anything on the docs, and excel sheets
> without having to rename them first.

Welcome to the Vista World of Permissions and Ownerships. You have to
take ownership of the file by right clicking and then properties on each
and every file and then click some more until you have permission and
ownership of a file you created! LOL! Yeah, Vista is really groovy, folks.

Alias