Opening mutiple copies of same office document.

[jjjax]

We have been running a lot of access 2000 databases on mostly windows 2000
machines and as we are upgrading to Windows Vista (Happens on XP too) along
with Access 2007, when a user tries to open a second copy of the same
database (or any office document), it just makes the original one they have
open the active window but does not open a new copy. On Office 2000, it
might give a message about it being read only but still would open. Not a
major issue but a lot of users sometime like to have 2 copies open if they
are working on different screens and since these are mostly access .adp's, it
doesn't hurt because data is stored on sql server. Is this something that we
can change? Thanks, Joe

 

[jjjax]

Just to update, I think I found a way around it. Rather than having their
shortcut point to the .adp itself, for example buyingdept.adp, if I do it
like below, it works. It gives a message about read only for 2nd and so on
copies but since they are not updating anything in database itself, it should
be good.

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\msaccess.exe" "c:\program
files\buyingdept\BuyingDept.adp" /runtime