Re: Sharing Violation

Bitstring <v8QSa.11866$0F4.11754@nwrdny02.gnilink.net>, from the
wonderful person Bill T <bill17@fastdial.net> said

>I recently got a new Dell PC with XP Pro. I installed Office 97 on it. I
>shared some folders with my existing Win 98 PC and copied my documents to
>the new PC. Ever since, when I double click one of the copied Word or Excel
>docs from the new XP Pro PC, I get an "already in use" or "document already
>opened" message. If I create the document on the XP Pro PC and no other PC
>on the network saves it, no issues. If I open up a document by using
>File/Open from within the application, no problem. Problem only occurs when
>double-clicking within folder (desktop, Recent, etc). The documents aren't
>in use... this happens consistently even when only the XP Pro PC is on. I
>was able to recreate it by copying files over my home network from documents
>created by yet another PC running XP Home and newer version of Word.

This is a not uncommon problem .. see for instance

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl...-8&threadm=u48
ujWdGBHA.1696%40tkmsftngp04&rnum=6&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26ie%3DUTF-8%26
oe%3DUTF-8%26q%3Dwindows%2Bword%2B%2522already%2Bin%2Buse%2 522%2Bdocument
%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg%26meta%3D

(or just groups.google.com, and search for
windows word "already in use" document)

Some of the references relate to Win2k, but the problem is the same in
WinXP.

The 'best' answer looks like the one from Beth Melton at the bottom of
the first thread I quoted ..

(Note, if this doesn't fix it, the real experts hang out in the
News:microsoft.public.office.misc newsgroup)

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