Hello all, A couple of end users have encountered the above problem. They make changes to pptx files and after the file saves, the file becomes read only (says so on the program window).
The Mark as Final command makes a presentation read-only, but it is not a security feature. You or anyone who receives an electronic copy of a presentation marked as final can reverse the Mark as Final status and edit the presentation. Microsoft currently does not support a PowerPoint Viewer for Mac OS X. For users with this operating system, we recommend downloading Apache OpenOffice This program is a free download that will allow you to view PPS, PPT, or PPTX files.
If they are not paying attention, then any other changes they make to the file need to be saved to another file, which needless to say, is very annoying. They have saved the file, file becomes read-only, then if they close the file and open it back up, it's fine; they can edit and save. It happens sporadic. Could it be an autosave happening at the same time? Any others experiencing this?
Any help would be appreciated! Hi Thank you for using Microsoft Office for IT Professionals Forums. From your description, I understand that you want to allow changes by more than one user at the same time in PowerPoint. If there is any misunderstanding, please feel free to let me know.
In Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, multiple authors can simultaneously change the same presentation stored on a server. The new co-authoring functionality in Microsoft Office 2010 makes it possible for multiple users to work productively on the same document without intruding on one another’s work or locking each other out. More detailed information you can refer to this article Work on a presentation at the same time as your colleagues Please take your time to try the suggestions and let me know the results at your earliest convenience.
If anything is unclear or if there is anything I can do for you, please feel free to let me know. Hope that helps. Sincerely William Zhou CHN. Hi Thank you for using Microsoft Office for IT Professionals Forums. From your description, I understand that you want to allow changes by more than one user at the same time in PowerPoint.
If there is any misunderstanding, please feel free to let me know. In Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, multiple authors can simultaneously change the same presentation stored on a server. The new co-authoring functionality in Microsoft Office 2010 makes it possible for multiple users to work productively on the same document without intruding on one another’s work or locking each other out. More detailed information you can refer to this article Work on a presentation at the same time as your colleagues Please take your time to try the suggestions and let me know the results at your earliest convenience.
If anything is unclear or if there is anything I can do for you, please feel free to let me know. Hope that helps.
Sincerely William Zhou CHN. My company has several users with the same issue.
While editing a Powerpoint 2010 document it will become read-only. They have been able to change the document type to Powerpoint 2003 and save it as that. It appears that one of the annoying security provisions in Office 2010 may have run a muck.
Either a collaboration feature or marking the document as FINAL is trying to take over the world. Note: these are single user documents stored on a network file share. They are not collaborating and they have not marked them as FINAL. Yes, they have full control on the network drive and they edit all kinds of Office documents there all day long.
We also have the same problems company-wide. If you re-open a powerpoint file on the network, it often opens read-only, even if no one else has it open. And it doesn't give you a warning that it is read-only.
The only work-around we could find is to end the Powerpoint process in the task manager's process manager. After powerpoint closes that process is still running, often using a lot of resources.
Why does it need to keep running? I also have a lot of problems with linked charts.
Sometimes the links will just mess up and get overwritten with other links in the file. Sometimes the file opens in Protected View. Sometimes the links just don't take you anywhere when you double click on them and there is an error message. Has anyone at all found a solution to this yet? We used Office 2007 on XP clients for years with no problems. Now all our users connect to a Server 2008R2 Terminal server, again using Office 2007 and now we've started having this problem. Also I'd like to add that this affects Word and Excel, as well as Powerpoint.
I have read through quite a few forums on this and no-one seems to have found the cause, only unsatisfactory workarounds. To test I tried disbaling the AV but that didn't work and neither did disabling Autorecover, although neither one would have been a workable solution really. I'm not quite sure where to go from here:-(. Just a bump to this thread with a report that we're having the same problem as well.
Netbooks running Windows 7 and Office Professional Plus 2010 - Users create and save Powerpoint (pptx) files. Users go back into the files and do some work. Without warning, suddenly the files become read-only. They can only save the file as a new version. Users have Modify / Read & Execute / List Folder Contents / Read / Write access to the folder where the pptx file is stored.
The only network right they don't have is full control. The answer from 2nd May says that the user needs Read / Write access but then calls that 'full control' - it would be useful to clarify whether the 'Full control' permission is what needs to be set up? Seems as if Powerpoint is making the files read-only at some point whilst they are in use. Hi All, unfortunately I've not got a fix but I've been able to generate the problem pretty much at will so at least that can aid in hopefully fixing the issue. If I open the pptx file and start continously saving it and then ask a colleague to keep tryiong to open the file at the same time eventually it should break and you get the read only error. A number of users here have had the issue, but only on heavily shared documents where someone is likely to saving while someone else is opening the file.
I can generate fault with ppt and pptx files so don't think that's the fix. It seems to be related to Windows 7 that we recently upgraded to - we use Office 2007 btw.
Our Servers are Server 2008 R2 but i can also generate the fault on Windows Server 2003 and even shared a file off a Windows 7 machine and still got the fault so I think it's the client rather than the shared drive. I'm going to continue to google for a fix and then log a call with Microsoft if I can't get a fix. The problem happens when we're working on the most important documents so i'm not too popular at the moment.