response 224 of 475:

Feb 11 20:48 UTC 2004

> I don't think MSWord is smart enough to not want to modify a read-only file.

Dunno what version of Word you are running.  Modern day Word definitely *does*
know about read-only files, and says "Read Only" on the title bar when you
open such a file, and will not allow you to save back to it - you must use
"Save As".  (caveat - this is all under MS-Windows)