a dumb sharing question

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Susan T.

Hello,
I'm sure this is a dumb question but here goes.

We have a directory that contains mostly Word documents
and it is shared to the average user with the following
permissions:
Share: Read
NTFS: Read; Read & Execute

Users often open the documents in MSWord and leave them
open for hours. This creates a problem when the documents
control person has to update the file because they get a
Sharing Violation. Now they have to call me to find out
who has the file open so we can contact the user and ask
them to close the file.

Is there any way I can share these files so that a user
can have it open in Word and still let our documents
control person update the file?
 
You can use share point portal server to over come this problem


When you use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Visio to open a local copy of the
document on which the Document Workspace is based, the Microsoft Office
program periodically gets updates from the Document Workspace and makes
them available to you - for example, if other members have been editing
their own copy of the document and have saved those changes to the Document
Workspace.

If the changes to the workspace copy conflict with changes you've made to
your copy, you can choose which copy to keep.

When you are finished editing your copy, you can save your changes to the
Document Workspace, where they are available for the other members to
incorporate into their copy of the document.

Subbu
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