"Document alreaady open" Message

[Myan]

Hi,
Running Office97 on Win2K Prof. I get this message when I open Excel or Word
files:
"A document with the same name 'xxxxxxx.xls' is already open. You cannot
open two documents with the same name, even if the documents are in
different folders. To open the second document, either close the document
that's currently open , or rename one of the documents."

Since the files are local, there is no way that another user has the files
open at the same time.

I think there is a registry fix to resolve this problem but I couldnt locate
the article where I read the solution from. Hope someone in this group can
help me.

Thanks.

 

[Jan Karel Pieterse]

Hi,

This is typically a message from Excel.

Try if this resolves it (Close all instances of Excel):

Start, Run,
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office\Excel.exe" /Regserver

Quotes mandatory, Note you may have to change the path.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel TA/MVP

 

[Dan Torhjelm]

I am having the same problem but am using Windows XP Pro.
I would also appreciate a fix for the problem.

Thanks for any help