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"Blocked for Editing"
Word 2013 is giving me conniptions. Wish I could go back to Word 2003
From time to time, if I type a document and save it in the normal fashion to my "Documents" folder, and if I then try to reopen the same document, Word tells me that the Document is locked for editing. It means just that: I can no longer make changes to the document and save them. That means I am stuck and have to re-type the document, save it again with a new name and, with luck, it will not be locked. If I insist on opening the document, it looks weird and with two columns. This locking feature asserts itself at random. I spent a lot of time looking in the File Options sections looking for any entry that might cause this behavior but all options settings look OK Any help would be greatly appreciated. Maybe I should go back to my 2002 Word, no locking there! Walter -- www.rationality.net |
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Sometimes that happens in Word2007, too. I just Save As an .rtf, and the
next time I open it, it saves quite happily as a .docx. It does mess up the bibliography fields to some extent, but most people probably don't use the bibliography device. On Friday, July 25, 2014 7:01:01 PM UTC-4, Walter E. wrote: Word 2013 is giving me conniptions. Wish I could go back to Word 2003 From time to time, if I type a document and save it in the normal fashion to my "Documents" folder, and if I then try to reopen the same document, Word tells me that the Document is locked for editing. It means just that: I can no longer make changes to the document and save them. That means I am stuck and have to re-type the document, save it again with a new name and, with luck, it will not be locked. If I insist on opening the document, it looks weird and with two columns. This locking feature asserts itself at random. I spent a lot of time looking in the File Options sections looking for any entry that might cause this behavior but all options settings look OK Any help would be greatly appreciated. Maybe I should go back to my 2002 Word, no locking there! Walter |
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"Blocked for Editing"
If Word has crashed, there may be left-over temporary files (so-called
"lock" files, to be more precise) causing these kind of problems. Take a look at http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Walter E." wrote in message ... Word 2013 is giving me conniptions. Wish I could go back to Word 2003 From time to time, if I type a document and save it in the normal fashion to my "Documents" folder, and if I then try to reopen the same document, Word tells me that the Document is locked for editing. It means just that: I can no longer make changes to the document and save them. That means I am stuck and have to re-type the document, save it again with a new name and, with luck, it will not be locked. If I insist on opening the document, it looks weird and with two columns. This locking feature asserts itself at random. I spent a lot of time looking in the File Options sections looking for any entry that might cause this behavior but all options settings look OK Any help would be greatly appreciated. Maybe I should go back to my 2002 Word, no locking there! Walter -- www.rationality.net |
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