Word 2007 - Save as PDF - This file is in use by another applicati

[jlk-office]

I have MS Office 2007 Small Business running on Vista Home Premium.

For months I have been using the "Save as PDF/XPS" option to save my word
documents as PDF files.

All of a sudden (started just yesterday 9/5/2008), when I click on the
publish button within the "save as PDF dialog", I get the error:

"This file is in use by another application or user."

- I have tried creating a new word document and I still get this error when
I try to save-as pdf.
- I have tried opening a document that previously was able to be
saved-as-a-pdf, and it no longer works either.
- I have tried saving from other office applications (excel, powerpoint)
that also get errors now.
- I have rebooted
- I have searched for read lock files to no avail

I have not personally installed any new software that I recall between when
this worked and stopped working for me.

As far as I can tell there have been no updates explicitly for save-as-pdf
in office [from automatic updates].

 

[jlk-office]

I meant to ask if anyone is out there that is experiencing the same problem
or if anyone has any ideas...?

Thanks.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi jlk,

Please see the reply to your duplicate posting in the Word Applications Error discussion group.

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I have MS Office 2007 Small Business running on Vista Home Premium.

For months I have been using the "Save as PDF/XPS" option to save my word
documents as PDF files.

All of a sudden (started just yesterday 9/5/2008), when I click on the
publish button within the "save as PDF dialog", I get the error:

"This file is in use by another application or user."

- I have tried creating a new word document and I still get this error when
I try to save-as pdf.
- I have tried opening a document that previously was able to be
saved-as-a-pdf, and it no longer works either.
- I have tried saving from other office applications (excel, powerpoint)
that also get errors now.
- I have rebooted
- I have searched for read lock files to no avail

I have not personally installed any new software that I recall between when
this worked and stopped working for me.

As far as I can tell there have been no updates explicitly for save-as-pdf
in office [from automatic updates]. <<
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[damidgaf]

I too have exactly the same problem. I can however convert Word
documents to pdf format using "CutePDF" but would like to have the
Office 2007 add in to work as it should do.

Regards
Damidgaf

 

[damidgaf]

Thanks nsanty!

The problem was resolved by telling my AV software (Kaspersky) t
"trust" Word.

Regards
Damidga

 

[Fin]

Thanks for the soultion. This also happened when I upgraded t
Kaspersky 2009 and re-installed Word 2007 + SaveSsPDFandXPS.exe plug-i

 

[sanju121]

Had the same problem that is 'the file is in use by another program or
user' (http://www.pathtoolong.com)
and fixed it with www.pathtoolong.com.