Reply to note from Bill Troop <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx> Thu, 16 Dec 2021 19:22:21 +0000 Bill, > It is only when I try to save from XyWrite that I get this > baffling access denied message. Have you tried clearing the file's Read-Only attribute? In XyWrite 4, command ATTRIB abcd,0 (where "abcd" is the filename). Or, at the Windows command prompt, ATTRIB -R abcd. -- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxxxx