Word Document Sharing Message Problem

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Magnusfarce

I have a couple of relatively new installs of W2K on computers in my home
and use Word 97 on one and Word 2000 on the other. In both cases, I have
set up a separate Documents directory on the C: drive to hold my Word
documents, and I have changed settings to have Word save files to this
directory. However, frequently when I call up a document, I get an MS Word
message that says:

"C:\ (filename.doc) is being used by (me). Do you want to make a
copy?"

I click cancel and all is well, but this is annoying. Why is this happening
and how I can fix it?

- Magnusfarce
 
Magnusfarce said:
I have a couple of relatively new installs of W2K on computers in my home
and use Word 97 on one and Word 2000 on the other. In both cases, I have
set up a separate Documents directory on the C: drive to hold my Word
documents, and I have changed settings to have Word save files to this
directory. However, frequently when I call up a document, I get an MS Word
message that says:

"C:\ (filename.doc) is being used by (me). Do you want to make a
copy?"

I click cancel and all is well, but this is annoying. Why is this happening
and how I can fix it?

- Magnusfarce
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These links might help:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;200915
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;296055
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;177248
 
Antivirus settings can cause problems too. If you have Norton make sure
the Office Plugin is disabled.
 
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