There must be something wrong with my wordpad. I checked and my p6 compression is not checked. I also looked at the properties of the cr2 and dont see that it is write protected. I also tried editing after closing down poser completely. It still wont let me edit the file. Is there someplace else to check to see if it is write protected? I checked the properties after right clicking the file in windows explorer. I am running windows xp. Thanks for the suggestions!!! Lonni