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Office 97 in Windows 2000 Pro

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by fsaucedo 1 view

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When a document icon (Word doc or Excel sheet) is opened, Word/Excel gives me a message saying that the file is already opened by another user. It will then ask me to save a copy of this file even though I am the only user opening the file. How can I fix this or prevent this from happening?

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by sgt_shultz

i wonder if this is a rights thing? can you give yourself local administrator rights and see if that helps?

by fsaucedo

I am running this in administrator account. The system has only one account setup (admin).

by ann777

Start --> Search --> Files or Folders --> and input ~*.*. Delete all of them.

Often MS products will fail to close the copies of these files that are being worked on throughout the day.

If these files are on the network, then you'll need to find out which users have them opened.

by fsaucedo

There are no files with that description found. I did notice that they are created when I open a document but they are removed automatically when I closed Word/Excel.

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