Maintaining read-only to hyperlinked documents

[Alison Madrey]

I am trying to create a document that links to other
documents. I did not create any of these documents
using "masterdocument" and "subdocument" tools... just
created a document with links to the other documents.
When the reader clicks on each link, I want the secondary
documents to open read-only, but they aren't. On the flip
side, the secondary documents are actually saved as read-
only and if you open them directly from their folder off
the drive, it gives a read-only warning. What's up with
that?

[John McGhie [MVP]]

Hi Alison:

When you open anything from a Hyperlink, you download a copy and open that.
You are not opening the original: a hyperlink always downloads a copy.

But it doesn't matter if the user changes the document, since it is local to
their machine and nobody will see their changes (including themselves,
unless they explicitly save their edited copy somewhere). Your hyperlink
will never call their edited version. They will never be able to save back
to the original's folder.

Hope this helps

This responds to article <085101c2c961$333b4c10$8ef82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA04>,
from "Alison Madrey" <ali...@dhilton.com> on 31/1/03 11:44 AM:

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