MS Word doing something wonky

Factual Questions
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Didn’t find this one in search-OS is XP Pro with Office 97 Pro suite.

If I open a .doc via Word, everything is fine. If instead I open Administrators documents, drill down to the folder desired and click the file to open, I get a darn balloon that says "C:…(rest of path)\wonky.doc is being used by (insert my name). Do you want to make a copy? I have to tell it no so I can read the file-if I ignore it, it will auto save to the same folder with a ~copy after 30 seconds or so.

It’s not like I have the document open in two places, so why has Word suddenly gotten concerned with making copies of stuff for me that aren’t needed or desired?

I suspect the hateful paperclip is behind this. :wink:

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IIRC this is a bug in Office 97, run an auto-update to get the latest SP and patches for it. Or ditch it in favour of Open Office :slight_smile:

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Wow - that was helpful. :rolleyes:

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I had the same problem on my system when I had Office 97 here. The only fix I found was to upgrade my version of MS Office to Office XP.

As an interim fix, I did install Open Office (Which you can download here. It is a very good alternative if you don’t need MS Access.