This modification is not allowed because the doument is locked

[Larry S]

Perhaps this is another for Terry Farrell, Miocrosoft MVP (or just more of
the same). I use an HP Pavilion laptop, about three years old, with Office
2003 installed at source. All updates, SPs, etc, installed. About six months
ago, Word froze, with the above well-know phrase or saying appearing at
bottom of new, or existing, documents. (Excel froze also, I should add.)
After all the usual attempts (often listed in this forum, where the problem,
clearly, has being going on for years....i.e. about time Microsoft fixed the
f...ing problem) I gave up and called in our company's longserving
consultant, and therefore expensive, computer guru. After a couple of hours,
he also gave up and reloaded the original Office software. No avail. Next
was to save off-site almost three years work, re-format computer, reinstall
from System Recovery disks and re-load Office. Eh, Voile! Everything now
worked. Yesterday, suddenly the message is back. This is not an unactivated
program, or a trial version obviously. Any new ideas, anyone?

 

[Stefan Blom]

Note that a new activation may be required if hardware has been replaced in
the computer.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Have you made any changes to your computer - software, hardware or drivers?
Have you run any defrag or cleanup utility?
Does it happen for all documents including a new blank when opening?
Are you sure it isn't simply that Tools, Protect has somehow been toggled
on?

What happens in Safe Mode? From Start | Run (Winkey+R), type in

winword /a

and press enter. Can you edit documents now.

Terry

 

[Vicki C.]

we will be switching to MAC, also

Have you made any changes to your computer - software, hardware or drivers?
Have you run any defrag or cleanup utility?
Does it happen for all documents including a new blank when opening?
Are you sure it isn't simply that Tools, Protect has somehow been toggled
on?

What happens in Safe Mode? From Start | Run (Winkey+R), type in

winword /a

and press enter. Can you edit documents now.

Terry