Document Open in Word Viewer, Word Has Read-Only Access (166063)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003
- Microsoft Word Viewer 97-2000
- Microsoft Office Word 2003
- Microsoft Word 2002
- Microsoft Word 2000
- Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q166063 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.STATUSMicrosoft
has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed
in the "Applies to" section 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.
Note You can use the Microsoft Word 97-2000 Viewer to view documents
that were created in Microsoft Word 97, in Microsoft Word 2000, in Microsoft
Word 2002, and in Microsoft Office Word 2003.REFERENCES
For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
889347
Description of the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 12/17/2004 |
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