Word and Excel error

[Brian]

The first of two things:

1. I get an error on Excel that tells me that the files
is being open by another user. This happens on all Excel
files that I open. The directory that the excel files are
stored in is on a network shared. I've checked the
permissions to make sure that it is not set to read only.
The permission on the folder itself has no restrictive
permissions.

2. The word problem is similar. I get a read only when I
open any word files. Once again the files and folders do
not have any restrictive permissions.

I've tried reinstalling Office once before.

If anyone has cany recommendations on how to fix this,
that would be great.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Brian,

1. I recommend you ask this in the word.setup.networking
newsgroup, since it's probably a problem with your Windows
configuration, or how Office was installed

2. Be sure to mention which version of Office and which of
Windows you have. Very little can be done without this
information.

3. If this is Windows 2000 or XP, be sure you've installed
Office while logged in as an Administrator!

1. I get an error on Excel that tells me that the files
is being open by another user. This happens on all Excel
files that I open. The directory that the excel files are
stored in is on a network shared. I've checked the
permissions to make sure that it is not set to read only.
The permission on the folder itself has no restrictive
permissions.

2. The word problem is similar. I get a read only when I
open any word files. Once again the files and folders do
not have any restrictive permissions.

I've tried reinstalling Office once before.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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