Word file locked

  • Thread starter Thread starter tol7481
  • Start date Start date
T

tol7481

Hi,
I've a problem trying to open a word document (produced on the server)
in Internet Explorer. Sometimes I get an Office Message which says that
the file is already in use and asks if I want to open it in read-only
mode.
We've checked which processes where locking the file on the client
machine and it was used by WINWORD.EXE and IEXPLORE.EXE

Any idea?

Thanks,
Andrea
 
Than you've to make a shortcut on your Desktop to the Word-document. The
problem seems to be that WINWORD.EXE (Microsoft Word) and IEXPLORE.EXE
(Internet Explorer 4.6, IE5 or IE6) both wanna use the file. So you have to
use Word to watch / edit the document.

Or you can save that Word-document as a Webpage, naturally...
 
Hi Daan and hi everyone,
there's no shortcut for the Word document: it is dynamically produced
on the server (by a J2EE application) and opened by IE6, which sees
that it is a word document so it launches Word. But sometimes the file
is already locked... and I don't know why...

Bye,
Andrea
 
Hi,
I've a problem trying to open a word document (produced on the server)
in Internet Explorer. Sometimes I get an Office Message which says that
the file is already in use and asks if I want to open it in read-only
mode.
We've checked which processes where locking the file on the client
machine and it was used by WINWORD.EXE and IEXPLORE.EXE

Any idea?
Click to expand...


Use Folder Options, File Types to prevent .doc files from being opened
in the browser.

<title>KB162059 - How to configure Internet Explorer to open Office documents in the appropriate Office program instead of in
Internet Explorer</title>
 
Back
Top