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re: Access Denied error when openning word documents
Friday, May 9, 2008 at 6:07 pm
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Posted by Ricer46 (19571 messages posted)

I would begin by trying to copy the files to My Documents folder.







On Friday, May 9, 2008 at 3:12 pm, Brian wrote:

>I have several documents created in Word 2003 on a computer that was reformatted 

>with XP Pro.  They were stored on a USB HD from the original installation of XP 
Pro. 

> When I try to open them after the OS reinstall, I get an error "word cannot open 

>document:  user does not have access priviledges."  There is no prompt for a password. 

> I did not ever encrypt or password protect the documents.  I have tried assigning 

>ownership under security settings to my current user to no avail.  Any suggestions?

Written in response to:: Access Denied error when openning word documents (Brian: Friday, May 9, 2008 at 3:12 pm)

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re: Access Denied error when openning word documents (Brian: Friday, May 9, 2008 at 8:08 pm)

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Access Denied error when openning word documents (Brian: Fri, May 9, 2008, 3:12 pm)

re: Access Denied error when openning word documents (Ricer46: Fri, May 9, 2008, 6:07 pm)

re: Access Denied error when openning word documents (Brian: Fri, May 9, 2008, 8:08 pm)

re: Access Denied error when openning word documents (Ricer46: Sat, May 10, 2008, 7:32 am)

re: Access Denied error when openning word documents (Ari: Fri, May 9, 2008, 8:41 pm)

re: Access Denied error when openning word documents (Brian: Fri, May 9, 2008, 9:44 pm)

re: Access Denied error when openning word documents (appleoddity: Sat, May 10, 2008, 9:21 pm)

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