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Sharing and editing Word Document
We have Microsoft Word 2002 (Office XP). The Document is located on the
Network drive. I have created two group of people NTFS permission (one who have only Read permission and the other Full Control). I have noticed when someone from Read only Group open the document, the other person from Full Control when finishes editing, cannot save the document. As soon as, Read only member closes the document, then the other person can save his modification. Is that because the way Microsoft Word is? if yes, what other solution might work? thanks Mohammad |
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Word is set up so that the first person who opens a document obtains an
ownership over it so long as the document is opened. Others can open the file but as read-only. So I am mystified that it even allows the save for user 2 after user 1 closes out. Are you using documents where you should be using templates? http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm You might consider publishing these documents as pdf files for your read-only users. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "mohammad" wrote in message ... We have Microsoft Word 2002 (Office XP). The Document is located on the Network drive. I have created two group of people NTFS permission (one who have only Read permission and the other Full Control). I have noticed when someone from Read only Group open the document, the other person from Full Control when finishes editing, cannot save the document. As soon as, Read only member closes the document, then the other person can save his modification. Is that because the way Microsoft Word is? if yes, what other solution might work? thanks Mohammad |