Use Word (and all Office appl.) over unstable connections

[Peter Gustafsson]

Hi!

I have problem with Word 2000 & 2003 (and all Office 2000/2003 application).

I can open a document over our network but when I save my file I get
messages like "File write protected" or "Cannot find drive"

We have figured out that our network connection to fileserver (SAN) is bad,
it looses connection
just for a fraction of second (Firewall problem, we think), but that is
enough for Word and other Office application to lose
connection to documents.

When the error is shown I can throu Windows Explorer browse to my file. But
when saving in
Word the same error appear.

During my work I can see, when saving works, lots of tempfiles is created.

Is there any settings in Word (and Office 2000/2003 application) to manage
netconnection timeout?


Best regards
// Peter

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In Word 2003, check the box for "Make local copy of files stored on network
or removable drives." Unfortunately, I don't believe this option is
available in Word 2000, but you could do this manually: open the file on the
network, save a local copy and work on it, then save it back to the network.

 

[peter]

Hi, thanks for replying.

This is not an option for Word 2000, our users don't have rights to view and
browse local drives.

// Peter