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From: Paul on 19 Apr 2010 13:18
I agree with your expectations....I suppose another possible cause was
that it was opened from an email attachment when it was read-only.
When I changed it from read-only, I had saved it to disk.

On Apr 16, 1:56 pm, "Stefan Blom"
<StefanB...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hmm, that wasn't what I would except. In other words, I don't think I was
> very close... :-)
>
> Actually, you should be able to modify a read-only document, although you'd
> have to Save As in order to preserve the changes of course.
>
> --
> Stefan Blom
> Microsoft Word MVP
>
> "Paul" <paul.domas...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:3417e6f2-3622-4523-b1a7-bcb24f23bdfe(a)s7g2000vbk.googlegroups.com...
> Close...it was Read-Only.  When I saved a copy and unchecked Read-
> Only, things went back to normal.  Thanks...
>
> On Apr 16, 1:17 pm, "Stefan Blom"
>
>
>
> <StefanB...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Sounds like the document may be opening in Reading Layout view? You can
> > press ESC to exit that view. Also, you may want to clear the "Allow
> > starting
> > in Reading Layout" on the General tab of Tools | Options.
>
> > "Paul" <paul.domas...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Apr 16, 11:03 am, Paul <paul.domas...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I am using Word 2003 on Windows XP. I opened a Word attachment to my
> > > email...the buttons for the different views are not visible! I opened
> > > another Word document attachment (without closing the first one) and
> > > the buttons *are* visible. Furthermore, the toolbars that are
> > > activated are the same for the two documents. What checkbox/option do
> > > I change to get the View buttons visible in the first document?
>
> > I forgot to add that the Zoom percentage field is also grayed out in
> > the document that doesn't have View buttons.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

From: Stefan Blom on 19 Apr 2010 13:42
Saving an e-mail attachment to the hard drive before editing it is the
recommended approach (as you may already know).

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Paul" <paul.domaskis(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:b078c828-6892-4005-ae0f-ba25b018f7b7(a)a9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com...
I agree with your expectations....I suppose another possible cause was
that it was opened from an email attachment when it was read-only.
When I changed it from read-only, I had saved it to disk.

On Apr 16, 1:56 pm, "Stefan Blom"
<StefanB...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hmm, that wasn't what I would except. In other words, I don't think I was
> very close... :-)
>
> Actually, you should be able to modify a read-only document, although
> you'd
> have to Save As in order to preserve the changes of course.
>
> --
> Stefan Blom
> Microsoft Word MVP
>
> "Paul" <paul.domas...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:3417e6f2-3622-4523-b1a7-bcb24f23bdfe(a)s7g2000vbk.googlegroups.com...
> Close...it was Read-Only. When I saved a copy and unchecked Read-
> Only, things went back to normal. Thanks...
>
> On Apr 16, 1:17 pm, "Stefan Blom"
>
>
>
> <StefanB...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Sounds like the document may be opening in Reading Layout view? You can
> > press ESC to exit that view. Also, you may want to clear the "Allow
> > starting
> > in Reading Layout" on the General tab of Tools | Options.
>
> > "Paul" <paul.domas...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Apr 16, 11:03 am, Paul <paul.domas...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I am using Word 2003 on Windows XP. I opened a Word attachment to my
> > > email...the buttons for the different views are not visible! I opened
> > > another Word document attachment (without closing the first one) and
> > > the buttons *are* visible. Furthermore, the toolbars that are
> > > activated are the same for the two documents. What checkbox/option do
> > > I change to get the View buttons visible in the first document?
>
> > I forgot to add that the Zoom percentage field is also grayed out in
> > the document that doesn't have View buttons.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -



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