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I want to edit a apalike.bst to suit my bibliography style requirements.

The path of this file on my Windows OS is:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.7\bibtex\bst\apalike.bst

I made a copy of it, named myapalike.bst. I used notepad to open it and made the required changes. Then, while saving it, it showed a warning "Access is denied". And the changes were not saved.

Mico
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Qwerty
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  • Real quick: Are you really still working with version 2.7 of MiKTeX? Version 2.9 has been the standard for quite a few years by now. Separately, into which directory are you trying to save myapalike.bst? Are you maybe trying to save it to a directory for which you have no write access? – Mico Dec 29 '16 at 09:09
  • I am trying to save it in C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.7\bibtex\bst – Qwerty Dec 29 '16 at 09:11
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    It's a bad idea to try to save a personal file in a directory located in the MiKTeX system directory tree. Try to save the bst file either in the directory where your main tex file is located or in a "local" root directory -- assuming, of course, that you've set up such a root directory. – Mico Dec 29 '16 at 09:17
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    @Mico: @Qwerty should check his search pathes, to find out, where the personal LaTeX-directories are. In TeXLive this would be tlmgr conf. Have a look for the variable TEXMFLOCAL and store your newly created file in there. Second: if you have write permissions to C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.7\bibtex\bst and store your file there, it might not be found by LaTeX/BibTeX, as long as you don't update the TeX-systems database. – Jan Dec 29 '16 at 09:33
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    The following question might be of interest: http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/69483/93559 – Christian Dec 29 '16 at 10:20
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    Save the file in a folder C:\mylocaltexmf\bibtex\bst\myapalike. Instead of C:\mylocaltexmf you can use whatever location you want. It only should be outside of the miktex trees, and be writable by you. Then add C:\mylocaltexmf as a new root with miktex-settings. – Ulrike Fischer Dec 29 '16 at 12:57

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