Word 97

[Mare]

Hello. I am having a message come up when I access my
Word documents. I have a new computer, and have
installed Word 97 on it for my word processing needs. I
copied Word XP files from another computer onto this new
one that has Word 97. Whenever I go to access any of
these Word documents, I get a message that comes up
saying that the document is being used in "...the name of
our company" and asks if I want to make a copy. This has
also happened with new documents that I have created,
other than the ones that I have copied from a CD onto
this computer. I click that I don't want to make a copy
and then the document comes up and I can use it.

Any thoughts on what this problem is??? Any help would
be appreciated. THANKS!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/DocInUse.htm, but note that
files copied from a CD will always be read-only, and you have to change this
in Windows.

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Words into Type
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[slacker]

I am experiencing the same problem, but unfortunately I
didn't find the link you provided to be much help.

 

[Beth Melton]

How are you opening the files? If you are opening the files outside
the application (other than using File/Open) then it sounds like the
file association needs to be recreated. Go to Start/Run and run the
following:

winword /r

Note that there is a space before the forward slash.

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