[GWL]

I have been having an occasional problem with random documents displaying
this message "this modification is not allowed because the selection is
locked by (my name) when I attempt to close or save changes in the document.
What am I doing that locks the document? When this happens I can save it to
another name or restart the computer and lose any changes.

TIA

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com]

See the article "I keep getting files that I am working on locked for
editing. Word only allows me to open them read-only" at:

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


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"GWL" wrote in message
...
I have been having an occasional problem with random documents displaying
this message "this modification is not allowed because the selection is
locked by (my name) when I attempt to close or save changes in the
document. What am I doing that locks the document? When this happens I can
save it to another name or restart the computer and lose any changes.

TIA

[GWL]

Thank you very much for the URL. I will follow the clean up instructions and
keep it for when or if it happens again. Since this seems to occur randomly,
but not often, I think I will keep a printed version handy. Again Thank you
as I had no idea of what was going on when this happened.

GWL

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com"
wrote in message ...
See the article "I keep getting files that I am working on locked for
editing. Word only allows me to open them read-only" at:

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


--
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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"GWL" wrote in message
...
I have been having an occasional problem with random documents displaying
this message "this modification is not allowed because the selection is
locked by (my name) when I attempt to close or save changes in the
document. What am I doing that locks the document? When this happens I can
save it to another name or restart the computer and lose any changes.

TIA