locked for editing by 'another user'

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While trying to open an MS work document I had been editing on my hard drive, I got a message stating document is locked for editing by 'another user'. The message box had had read only, notify or cancel alternatives. When selecting notify or read only I would get a memory could not be read message with cancel or debug options. Either of these options would cause a WINWORD error message and cause the program to be shut down. Does anyone know how to correct this?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/DocInUse.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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While trying to open an MS work document I had been editing on my hard

drive, I got a message stating document is locked for editing by 'another
user'. The message box had had read only, notify or cancel alternatives.
When selecting notify or read only I would get a memory could not be read
message with cancel or debug options. Either of these options would cause a
WINWORD error message and cause the program to be shut down. Does anyone
know how to correct this?

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Try saving the document to your harddisk and open again, if the person you
received the document protected it, it will be futile. Also, to remove the
Read Only, just Save it to your disk locally as I said before with the file
name, replacing the received file.

Andre Da Costa
Jamaica W.I.

While trying to open an MS work document I had been editing on my hard

drive, I got a message stating document is locked for editing by 'another
user'. The message box had had read only, notify or cancel alternatives.
When selecting notify or read only I would get a memory could not be read
message with cancel or debug options. Either of these options would cause a
WINWORD error message and cause the program to be shut down. Does anyone
know how to correct this?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/LockedFiles.htm. The temp files are
what are causing your problems. You might also want to read “WD: How Word
for Windows Uses Temporary Files†at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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The website referenced is helpful.......provided all this is happening on

the same computer. Unfortunately, if a process has copied the document from
another computer then how would these temporary, "locking" or "owner" files
apply? Obviously they could not as, in my instance, no other process on the
machine is accessing these files. I believe there is a problem with Word not
doing a good job of cleaning up after itself relative to the tmp files it
does create on a given machine relative to an instance of Word especially
if, as we are, processsing document after document in assembly line fashion.
The other possiblity is there is something embedded within the document
itself that is "incomplete" for lack of a better term that flags Word that
the document is still being editted, somewhere. This could happen if the
instance of Word on the other machine was terminated abruptly and the
document was left "hanging". I have been wrestling with this issue for
many, many weeks now and am dying for a resolution.