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"Document is already open" Message
I have Office 97 Professional. I used it successfully on a Win95 machine,
but when I upgraded and installed it on WinXP it has an annoying hiccup. Whenever I double click on a MSWord document it opens the document fine, but immediately produces the error message , "'Filename" is being used by Ted Smith' Do you want to make a copy?" I just hit escape to get rid of the message and everything is OK from then on. Similiarly, when I double click on an Excel document I get an error message indicating that the document is already open, and that I can't open two documents with the same name, blah blah blah. Does anyone know a fix for this problem?? Ted Smith |
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I no longer have '97 installed but as I recall I solved this problem by:
Clicking Start - Run Type "winword.exe/regserver" without the quotes and click on OK. You might have to unregister winword first if that doesn't work by itself. To do that, Type "winword.exe/regserver" without the quotes and click on OK. Then repeat the first step. It is worth a try. "Ted Smith" wrote in message ... I have Office 97 Professional. I used it successfully on a Win95 machine, but when I upgraded and installed it on WinXP it has an annoying hiccup. Whenever I double click on a MSWord document it opens the document fine, but immediately produces the error message , "'Filename" is being used by Ted Smith' Do you want to make a copy?" I just hit escape to get rid of the message and everything is OK from then on. Similiarly, when I double click on an Excel document I get an error message indicating that the document is already open, and that I can't open two documents with the same name, blah blah blah. Does anyone know a fix for this problem?? Ted Smith |
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A couple slight correction in the commands:
winword /regserver Note the space before the forward slash. Also, Word supports the abbreviated switch: winword /r To unregister Word: winword /unregserver Again, note the space before the forward slash. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Jack Gillis" wrote in message ... Clicking Start - Run Type "winword.exe/regserver" without the quotes and click on OK. You might have to unregister winword first if that doesn't work by itself. To do that, Type "winword.exe/regserver" without the quotes and click on OK. |
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Thank you very much! That took care of the problem with MS Word.
But MS Excel still has the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix that?? Ted Smith "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... A couple slight correction in the commands: winword /regserver Note the space before the forward slash. Also, Word supports the abbreviated switch: winword /r To unregister Word: winword /unregserver Again, note the space before the forward slash. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Jack Gillis" wrote in message ... Clicking Start - Run Type "winword.exe/regserver" without the quotes and click on OK. You might have to unregister winword first if that doesn't work by itself. To do that, Type "winword.exe/regserver" without the quotes and click on OK. |
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You're more than welcome. :-)
The same command works for Excel as well (and the rest of the Office apps). However only Word supports the abbreviated switch so use: excel /regserver Note the space before the forward slash. -- Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Ted Smith" wrote in message ... Thank you very much! That took care of the problem with MS Word. But MS Excel still has the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix that?? Ted Smith "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... A couple slight correction in the commands: winword /regserver Note the space before the forward slash. Also, Word supports the abbreviated switch: winword /r To unregister Word: winword /unregserver Again, note the space before the forward slash. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Jack Gillis" wrote in message ... Clicking Start - Run Type "winword.exe/regserver" without the quotes and click on OK. You might have to unregister winword first if that doesn't work by itself. To do that, Type "winword.exe/regserver" without the quotes and click on OK. |
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Wow!! You're a genius. Worked perfectly.
I'm sure that I will eventually need to "fix" the other Office apps someday so maybe you could briefly include those commands as well - IF you have time. Sure appreciate all your help so far! Ted Smith "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... You're more than welcome. :-) The same command works for Excel as well (and the rest of the Office apps). However only Word supports the abbreviated switch so use: excel /regserver Note the space before the forward slash. -- Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Ted Smith" wrote in message ... Thank you very much! That took care of the problem with MS Word. But MS Excel still has the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix that?? Ted Smith "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... A couple slight correction in the commands: winword /regserver Note the space before the forward slash. Also, Word supports the abbreviated switch: winword /r To unregister Word: winword /unregserver Again, note the space before the forward slash. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Jack Gillis" wrote in message ... Clicking Start - Run Type "winword.exe/regserver" without the quotes and click on OK. You might have to unregister winword first if that doesn't work by itself. To do that, Type "winword.exe/regserver" without the quotes and click on OK. |
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Well...can't say I'm a genius - simply something I picked up way back
when in the newsgroups. Far easier than manually modifying the file types as I used to do. :-) Here's the complete list for all of the Office apps: winword /r excel /regserver powerpnt /regserver msaccess /regserver Note the space before the forward slash. Also, since you are using Office 97 if you encounter this issue again should be able to use the following command to recreate the file associations for all of the applications. (It will also recreate various Registry information) Go to Start/Run and run: D:\Setup /y /r Note you need to replace D:\ with your installation source if necessary. If in doubt, use the Browse command to navigation to Setup.exe on your installation CD/source and then back on the Run command add the switches. If the command path contains quotes the switches need to be placed outside the quotes. Also, as with the /regserver switch, you need a space before each forward slash. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Ted Smith" wrote in message ... Wow!! You're a genius. Worked perfectly. I'm sure that I will eventually need to "fix" the other Office apps someday so maybe you could briefly include those commands as well - IF you have time. Sure appreciate all your help so far! Ted Smith "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... You're more than welcome. :-) The same command works for Excel as well (and the rest of the Office apps). However only Word supports the abbreviated switch so use: excel /regserver Note the space before the forward slash. -- Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Ted Smith" wrote in message ... Thank you very much! That took care of the problem with MS Word. But MS Excel still has the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix that?? Ted Smith "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... A couple slight correction in the commands: winword /regserver Note the space before the forward slash. Also, Word supports the abbreviated switch: winword /r To unregister Word: winword /unregserver Again, note the space before the forward slash. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Jack Gillis" wrote in message ... Clicking Start - Run Type "winword.exe/regserver" without the quotes and click on OK. You might have to unregister winword first if that doesn't work by itself. To do that, Type "winword.exe/regserver" without the quotes and click on OK. |
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