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Norman
Lv 5
Norman asked in Computers & InternetSoftware · 2 years ago

I created a WORD document and it got locked, how I don't know, but I am unable to add to it. Does anybody know how to unlock it?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Check the settings, you may have made it a 'read only' document. Go to the help section of Word, do a search for "Read Only' - I'm not sure where to find it myself, but when something goes into "Read Only" no one can change a thing to it. It seems likely that you may have inadvertently clicked on it... or it could be Word glitched.

  • Fred
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Dinky left out a step:

    Open doc and press Ctr-A and then Ctrl-C to copy the entire doc to the clipboard

    Ctrl-N to open a new doc and then Ctrl-V to paste contents of clipboard to the new doc

  • 2 years ago

    Can you open and read the document?

    If you can ...

    (1) Open it.

    (2) Press CTRL and A to select everything in the document

    (3) Open a new, empty document.

    (4) Press CTRL and V to paste everything in the Windows Clipboard

    (5) Save this document with whatever name you prefer

    You should be good to go.

  • Pearl
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    i would take it to a connputer store, they know how to unlock stuff like that

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