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Errors when opening document
Word 2002 SP3
I have a user with a strange problem. When he opens Word documents, he very often gets an error to the effect (not exact wording) that the document was not closed properly last time - do you want to open yes/no. The document then will open very slowly - taking a minute or more. These documents are on a network drive and most have huge paths to reach them. However, when he receives documents via his GroupWise and opens them, he often gets a message they 'should' be opened as read only. Then they take a long time to open as well. We tried saving an emailed document to the Desktop and open it from there but go the same message. We also ran a repair on his office suite and have renamed normal.dot twice. I've taught him to do an EXT, then copy/paste the document to a new document and name differently than the original and that's working fine for him. The only constant seems to be his PC. I've looked through all his Word settings and do not see anything amiss. We would like to know if there are any ideas as to why so many of his documents are being problematic including those sent to him. Any ideas at all? Thanks! |
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Errors when opening document
This type of error occurs when the document is not closed properly e.g. if
the PC is switched off without closing Word. This leaves the temporary files present on the hard drive which lock the document against further use - see http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Brenda from Michigan wrote: Word 2002 SP3 I have a user with a strange problem. When he opens Word documents, he very often gets an error to the effect (not exact wording) that the document was not closed properly last time - do you want to open yes/no. The document then will open very slowly - taking a minute or more. These documents are on a network drive and most have huge paths to reach them. However, when he receives documents via his GroupWise and opens them, he often gets a message they 'should' be opened as read only. Then they take a long time to open as well. We tried saving an emailed document to the Desktop and open it from there but go the same message. We also ran a repair on his office suite and have renamed normal.dot twice. I've taught him to do an EXT, then copy/paste the document to a new document and name differently than the original and that's working fine for him. The only constant seems to be his PC. I've looked through all his Word settings and do not see anything amiss. We would like to know if there are any ideas as to why so many of his documents are being problematic including those sent to him. Any ideas at all? Thanks! |
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Thank you. I'm checking to see if these have corresponding ~$ files.
However, he reports that initially opening a document emailed to him also produced an error. This happens so often I strongly believe something else is happening other than an occasional crash of Word, I just can't wrap my mind around what it might be. "Graham Mayor" wrote: This type of error occurs when the document is not closed properly e.g. if the PC is switched off without closing Word. This leaves the temporary files present on the hard drive which lock the document against further use - see http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Brenda from Michigan wrote: Word 2002 SP3 I have a user with a strange problem. When he opens Word documents, he very often gets an error to the effect (not exact wording) that the document was not closed properly last time - do you want to open yes/no. The document then will open very slowly - taking a minute or more. These documents are on a network drive and most have huge paths to reach them. However, when he receives documents via his GroupWise and opens them, he often gets a message they 'should' be opened as read only. Then they take a long time to open as well. We tried saving an emailed document to the Desktop and open it from there but go the same message. We also ran a repair on his office suite and have renamed normal.dot twice. I've taught him to do an EXT, then copy/paste the document to a new document and name differently than the original and that's working fine for him. The only constant seems to be his PC. I've looked through all his Word settings and do not see anything amiss. We would like to know if there are any ideas as to why so many of his documents are being problematic including those sent to him. Any ideas at all? Thanks! |
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