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

ID: Q166063

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000

SYMPTOMS

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

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

STATUS

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

MORE INFORMATION

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

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:

Keywords : kbusage kbdta kbviewer word97
Version : WINDOWS:
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug