Word 2000 doc read only, but it isn't open!

[Wendy]

Hi all,

At some stage in the past 2 weeks while I was away, a doc on the office
network was accessed, and there must have been a crash on the Word 2000
system at the time this doc was open. A small 1kb temp file was created back
in Feb so this is when I think this happened. Not entirely sure who was
using it, but small pool of suspects.

Result is that when I try to open this doc now, it thinks that it is still
in use at another computer on the network, and will only open in 'read only'
mode.

* Windows Explorer will not shift or rename this doc
* also checked file properties to make sure 'read only' not set,
* nor will the backup work on it (it sends an error message about it also).

Nobody has this doc still open, I checked, not even as a recovered file.

I have managed to copy this file to another location for safe keeping, so
all I have to do is delete this file somehow, or somehow tell it to close.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

TIA

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Usually rebooting Windows will release all temp files.

 

[Wendy]

Thank you for the speedy reply, Suzanne, we'll try this and post again if
this does not fix up the situation.

Cheers,

Wendy