How to avoid "This Document is used by.. - .Do you want to make a copy?

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Alex - 27 Jan 2004 00:08 GMT

It drives me nuts: Whenever I open one of my WORD-97
documents, I receive the message: "This document is used
by Alex, do you want to make a copy?" I am Alex! My name
is in the summary of the properties. I tried severals
things, to no avail. How can I get rid of that once and
forever?
Thanks for your help.
Alex

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Jay Freedman - 27 Jan 2004 02:07 GMT

Hi, Alex,

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

>It drives me nuts: Whenever I open one of my WORD-97
>documents, I receive the message: "This document is used
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>Thanks for your help.
>Alex

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word

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Beth Melton - 27 Jan 2004 02:48 GMT

Hi Alex,

How are you opening the files? If you are opening the files outside
the application (other than using File/Open) then it sounds like the
File Association needs to be recreated.

Go to Start/Run and run the following:

winword /r

Note that there is a space before the forward slash.

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> It drives me nuts: Whenever I open one of my WORD-97
> documents, I receive the message: "This document is used
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> Thanks for your help.
> Alex

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