[Three Lefts]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:39:13 +0300, "Graham Mayor"
wrote:

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
In Word 2003, I've frequently been
surprised to see that Word will actually release xxx.doc for editing
after I've saved it as yyy.doc (despite the fact that ~$xxx.doc is
still open).

Actually if you save xxx.doc as yyy.doc the lock file for xxx.doc is
released in Word 2003 (but not in 2007). The lock file is not released when
you save xxx.doc as yyy.docx, and that is true for both Word versions.

A few ad hoc tests will not determine when it will or will not happen.
I'm not sure it always happens to me. I probably wouldn't notice if is
succeeded. In the case I reported, it forced me to close Word
entirely, involving 5-6 other unrelated files.

Is
this a fatal flaw?

I didn't say it was.

Of course not - at best it is a minor irritation,

I believe I said that it was an annoyance, but one man's minor
irritation is another's major irritation. Clearly it is not even a
minor irritation to you, since you say it has never happened to you.

and
despite using Word 2007 for over a year, I would not have even been aware of
it had not the OP raised such a fuss about it.

Translation: Since it doesn't happen to you, it is not important.
Sweet. Sorry to have made "such a fuss" over something that is clearly
broken and has been for 10-15 years. In the future, I'll try to only
post questions that significant to you. If I mess up, please just
ignore me. Deal?