I have a Dell INSPIRON 1501 running on Microsoft Vista home basic, with Microsoft office 2007. Occasionally when I open a document and make some changes I cannot save the document. I must save the document with another name. For example I have a CLIENT list with addresses and email addresses. If I open the document, "CLIENT LIST 2008", and make some changes when I hit the save icon it asks for another name of the current document. So I end up having to save it as CLIENT LIST 2008A and then delete the original document CLIENT LIST 2008 and then rename CLIENT LIST 2008A to CLIENT LIST 2008, the original document. It's a pain in the a**. What must I do to just save my documents to the original name.

PeterI don't use 2007 - still make do with OLD 2000.

Occurs to me tho that MAYBE somewhere the file is being seen and regarded as read only - and so need for file change because write is not allowed for a save. I can only think of plowing thru your preferences/options in relevant application to see if there is some SETTING available to change.

Or even the original file attributes.Also, you may need to take ownership of a directory, you're saving those files to.