find out who has document open

[Guest]

someone walked me through this once and I have forgotten the steps. There is
somewhere I can go to find out who has a document open (when I get the
'read-only' message)...

 

[Jay Freedman]

someone walked me through this once and I have forgotten the steps.
There is somewhere I can go to find out who has a document open (when
I get the 'read-only' message)...

In the same folder as the document, you should find a file with the same
name except that the first two characters are replaced by ~$. Open that file
in NotePad to see the name of the person who opened the document. This will
be whatever they have typed into the Tools > Options > User Information
dialog, so it might not be their real name.