Hi Graham. I am saving to my local disk. I should have said so in my original
post. I considered that the file might be getting locked for some reason to
cause this but have no idea why that would be happening. I am storing the
file on the desktop but I don't think that should make a difference. I can
say that, maybe twice, I have noticed that a Word document temp file (in the
same location as the .docx file) doesn't get deleted when I close the Word
document. I have been able to manually delete that file. That has not
occurred in the case of the particular document with which I'm getting this
problem now though. Any other suggestsion are welcome. I'll check out your
link in a bit to see if there is anything there that might be useful though I
am storing the doc locally. Thanks.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
Are you saving to a network location? The problem most probably concerns the
handling of lock files and if there is a minor disruption in the connection
to the save location the document can be disconnected from its lock file and
the presence of the orphan lock file will prevent you from saving again to
that name. See also http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
"ASinger" wrote in message
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UPDATE: This has happened multiple times this morning and I'm getting
rather
ticked!
"ASinger" wrote:
I have had this happen quite a few times since using Word 2007 (Office
2007
suite) over the last 1+ years . At some point while working in a Word
document, I press Ctrl-S to save and instead of saving the doc as usually
happens, the Save As dialog comes up and I am forced to save the document
with another name. This is very, very frustrating and completely
interrupts
my workflow because after saving with a new name, I have to close the
document, delete the original so I can rename the saved-as doc with the
right
name.
This seems to happen when I've been working in the same document for an
extended period of time (e.g., about 2 hours this morning), which means
that
I have saved it many times. I typically save each time I take a break
from
typing.
Has anyone else experienced this and is there a solution?
Thanks for all useful input.
Windows XP Pro SP 3
Word/Office 2007
Dell hardware
3gb RAM
55gb free disk space
.