21602MR@MSU.BITNET (Mark Rosenberg) (03/28/91)
Does anyone have a clue as to what the problem is with Word 4.0 and documents that have been closed ? I get file is busy messages when trying to use these files while word is still open, and messages to insert floppies from whence the files came ? Thanks, Mark Rosenberg
hedstrom@sirius.UVic.CA (Brad Hedstrom) (03/29/91)
In article <90821602MR@MSU> 21602MR@MSU.BITNET (Mark Rosenberg) writes:
Does anyone have a clue as to what the problem is with Word 4.0 and documents
that have been closed ? I get file is busy messages when trying to use these
files while word is still open, and messages to insert floppies from whence
the files came ?
For some reason one seems to need to quit Word before the file is
unlocked.
The problem is that Word is a Microsoft product. Period.
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"I'm not an engineer,
but I play one on TV."hades@icefloe.dartmouth.edu (Brian V. Hughes) (03/29/91)
21602MR@MSU.BITNET (Mark Rosenberg) writes: >Does anyone have a clue as to what the problem is with Word 4.0 and documents >that have been closed ? I get file is busy messages when trying to use these >files while word is still open, and messages to insert floppies from whence >the files came ? >Thanks, >Mark Rosenberg I have never been really sure of why this happens, but for some reason Word has this small glitch that any file you have saved and then closed, is not truly closed until you quit out of word. As far as I know there is now way around this problem. It would be nice to see a word 4.1 or 4.01 that fixes this problem, unless someone out there can tell me a real reason this happens. Sorry this isn't much help, but this is how the problem works. In order to stop it from happening, you must quit and the restart word so that it releases its hold on all of the files that you saved during that session. Later. -- | Hades || Mac Database Admin. | | Brian V. Hughes || CALGB Central Office | | hades@Dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU || Dartmouth Medical Center | | "No, it's not who ya know.... it's who _I_ know." |