Q166063: WV: Document Open in Word Viewer, Word Has Read-Only Access

Article: Q166063
Product(s): Word 97 for Windows
Version(s): WINDOWS:
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbusage kbdta kbviewer word97
Last Modified: 19-JUL-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000 
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SYMPTOMS
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If you open a document in Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000 and then open that same
document in Microsoft Word (while it is still open in Word Viewer), Microsoft
Word opens the document as read-only.

Microsoft Word should open the document as read-write because Word Viewer cannot
make changes to the document.

WORKAROUND
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Close the document in Word Viewer. You can now open the document as read- write
in Microsoft Word.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products that are
listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION
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Microsoft Word opens a document as read-only if the document is already open
somewhere else. The first program to open the document gets read-write
privileges.

REFERENCES
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For more information about Word Viewer 97-2000, please see the following
Knowledge Base article:

  

  Q165908 WV: How to Obtain Microsoft Word Viewers

Additional query words:

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Keywords          : kbusage kbdta kbviewer word97 
Technology        : kbWordViewerSearch kbViewerSearch kbWordViewer97
Version           : WINDOWS:
Issue type        : kbbug

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