Have you activated the program (HelpActivate Product)? Or is it an
expired trial version? If neither of these is the issue and the document is
not protected in some way, see the article at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/LockedFiles.htm


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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"rach mc" rach wrote in message
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how did you unlock your document? help please!