I think the success rate has something to do with it being a global
template and if the template was actually edited by the original
"owner". I don't know for sure - usually when I'm in that situation I
don't have time to start experimenting which is the underlying reason
why I came up with the idea to try it in the first place. g
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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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Hi Beth,
I saw exactly that behavior today. I have Word 2003 in my main
partition and Word 2007 B2TR in a Virtual PC partition. I had saved
a
document from 2007 into a shared folder. Later, forgetting that the
document was still open in 2007, I tried to open it in 2003. I
thought
I'd fake it out by deleting the owner file, which I was able to do,
but it still gave me a permission-denied error. I couldn't open it
until I went back to 2007 and closed the document.
..
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:24:11 -0600, "Beth Melton"
wrote:
I'm really not sure - I think it might be fairly new. Perhaps the
behavior was changed with the multi-user editing of documents in
Word
2002??
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=292122
I've deleted the owner file in the past when I've encountered "this
file is opened by another user" message after I've made editing
changes to a global template (in a network environment when someone
has Word running and the template is loaded) to fool Word into
thinking it wasn't actually open so I can save my changes. This
method
doesn't always work - I have encountered "permission denied" errors
occasionally - and I when it does work I have to find the computer
that does have Word running and carefully read the messages,
something
like "this document was changed since it was opened, do you want to
update or discard changes, or my changes will end up being
overwritten.
Now that I think about it, maybe I do have an idea of what would
happen in a shared environment.