Office 97 in XP

[John Lynch]

I have just installed XP in place of Win 98. I have also
installed MS Office 97. I uploaded my My Documents files
from previous

When I go into My Documents and open both Word and Excel
files, a dialogue box tells me that there is another file
of the same name or it is being used by John Lynch, who
is my self of course. It appears that the files, even
after amendment or creation of new files, are mirrored.
For example: opening an Excel file, dialogue box shows:
"A document with the same name 'Attendance expected.xls'
is already open. You cannot open two documents with the
same name even if the documents are in different
folders. To open the second document, either close the
document that's currently open, or rename one of the
documents."

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day "John Lynch" <[email protected]>,

are your user permissions set correctly?

Steve Hudson
Word Heretic Sydney Australia
Tricky stuff with Word or words

Email: WordHeretic at tpg.com.au


John Lynch was spinning this yarn:

 

[John Lynch]

Many thanks for your reply.
The person who responded to the same question in EXCEL
solved the problem. It was a problem with file
associations.
The reference is in excel.misc at dsame time and date
under subject 'EXCEL' with replies from Jim Rech and Gord
Dibben. Interesting answers but worked immediately.

Thanks for your interest

John