Word document locked for editing

[Doug]

Hi there, somehow I managed to mess up a Word document. I
was adding jpeg images to the document and of a sudden,
the program stated it had performed an error and it
closed. When I went to open it again, a window popped up
saying that the document was "locked for editing" and I
could only access a 'read-only' copy. I tried to delete,
rename, add to this document to no avail. Personally I
would like to just trash the doc and start again, but I
cannot. Could someone advise as to how I can either re-
open for editing purpose, or how could I delete the
document?
Thanx

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The message you're getting results from the existence of temp files that
have not been deleted. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/DocInUse.htm
and http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm