Saving pdf in word 2007

[Dave Salt]

This perplexes me. I save word documents as PDFs quite often. It works OK but
every now and then after pressing the publish button it seems to work then
comes up with a dialog saying "Other application using the file" and pdf is
not saved. Ive deselected open file after saving and checked everything else
in Word properties.
Naturally there are no other programs working on the file.

Any ideas, this is really frustrating.

 

[Dave Salt]

Thanks Terry. This sounded reasonable but unfortunatley I found I had no temp
folders. I created one but had the same problem ie "another application
etc..."

I then created a dummy word file for testing and was able to save this as
pdf no problem. Same folder etc. So it looks as if its a property of some of
the word documents I work with but checking properties and the documents word
options I can see nothing that may influence or cause the problem. I am sure
the error message is incorrect. Obviously any further help would be extremely
usefull.

 

[Dave Salt]

Thanks Terry, I looked in the top directory. However deleted all by 2 files
in this directory. They were both used by the shell. Unfortunately no
improvement at all.

Ive created a test file, one sentence, "This is a test". Saved as word 2007
and as word 2003. On saving. Exiting then re-opening they both gave same
message yet again. "This file is in use by another application or user"

Yes I am using Vista. I have saved before as pdf with no problems. This in
last few weeks with no changes to computer apart from time.

Is it possible to re-install the add-in. Ive tried to delete it but cannot
discover how. This is becoming a real problem now. As ever any ideas more
than wellcome.