XL2000: Error Message: Cannot Access Read-Only Document <Filename>

When you save your file, you receive the following error message where filename is the name of the file that you are attempting to save.

NOTE: Microsoft Office 2000 has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to enable this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office 2000, please download the Microsoft Office 2000 Customizable Alerts file from the Microsoft Office Update Web site at the following address: NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking the Web Info button in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts enabled.

This problem occurs if you save your file to a network drive and you don't have sufficient permissions to save your file to that drive.

To work around this problem, save the file to your hard disk. Then, you may be able to copy the file to the network drive.

Contact your network administrator to obtain the appropriate permissions so that you can save your Excel files on the network.