“I’m facing an odd problem with MS Word document. Everything was fine until I updated Office suite 2003 to 2007. Whenever I try to save changes made to any Word file I receive an error message like “Word cannot complete the save due to a file permission error”. It’s really irritating because, I frequently keep working in Word document and when I try to save the changes I get this error. Can anyone please suggest me good solution for this Word issue?”
Word is the most widely used Microsoft application for documentation purposes. With Microsoft Word, it is very simple to create documents that include images, hyper links, tables, charts, graphic images, clip art and many other OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) items. Yet, there are many irregularities in the working of MS Word and users find it hard to overcome such situations. One such problematic situation is the permission error while saving changes made to Word file. Here, let us know what this error is and what are the causes for occurrence of this error?
Word cannot complete the save due to a file permission error:
This error in MS Word is commonly faced by many users when they try to update changes made to a Word file by clicking on save. The causes behind this error message can be:
- If the document is previously saved as ‘read only’ file / Template. This means that the file contents cannot be modified
- If user try to modify content of a file that is saved in a location, which user cannot access i.e. not having admin permission
- Trying to modify file from a network shared folder
- When Windows Search service is enabled
- When multiple antivirus programs are running on the system
When this error is displayed, modified content of the Word file cannot be saved. But, there are certain solutions to successfully save the file even when this error message is getting displayed. They are:
- Click on ‘Save As’ and save it in a new location
- Before editing the file, check whether the file is saved as Read-Only. If so then change the preferences
- If you do not have sufficient user permissions to modify any file, login as administrator
- Disable Windows Search service – Go to Start -> Click on Run -> Type services.msc -> locate Windows Search and double click on it -> Then click startup type -> select Automatic (Disabled) -> apply
- If the system has many antivirus programs running, disable all except any one
- Last but not the least, make use of inbuilt repair utility i.e. ‘Open and Repair’ option to repair the Word file.