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by isadmin 1 view

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I have two machines with the same problem. Both have W2K with Office 97. When a user, let's say JohnD opens a file ( .doc or .xls etc ) he gets the following message:
A document with the name "documentname" is already open. You cannot open two documents with the same name even if the documents are in different folders.
If JohnD opens a file on a network drive he gets "file is in use by JohnD - open read only?"

Thanks folks.

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by dklippert

Re-register Word. This can happen with other apps as well. Use the executable name and then the switch

Winword.exe /regserver

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