If you open a word file off a network drive, and then do a saveas to a new
file, the original file remains locked until you close the new file. We
have found this to be the case with our Word 2003. This seems like a bug to
me, and it seems like there should be a better answer than to tell people to
close the file and then reopen. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Make the file a template on the network drive, and that might just do what
you want. Is the file template like document, like a fill-in the blanks form
doc.
--
Kevin Backmann


"Tim" wrote:


If you open a word file off a network drive, and then do a saveas to a new
file, the original file remains locked until you close the new file. We
have found this to be the case with our Word 2003. This seems like a bug to
me, and it seems like there should be a better answer than to tell people to
close the file and then reopen. Does anyone have any suggestions?

no this is random files. they want to start a new file but know than an
existing one has a lot of what they want in the new one, so a template
doesn't really work. I know I could tell them to copy the file first or
other workarounds but the bottom line is, I think they should be able to do
it the way they are.


"Kevin B" wrote in message
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Make the file a template on the network drive, and that might just do what
you want. Is the file template like document, like a fill-in the blanks
form
doc.
--
Kevin Backmann


"Tim" wrote:


If you open a word file off a network drive, and then do a saveas to a
new
file, the original file remains locked until you close the new file. We
have found this to be the case with our Word 2003. This seems like a bug
to
me, and it seems like there should be a better answer than to tell people
to
close the file and then reopen. Does anyone have any suggestions?