file in use

[S.D]

How does microsoft word understand that a document being edited by other user.
Can i find document's editor (user who opens document with write access)
programatically.

Thanks for your assistance

 

[Jay Freedman]

How does microsoft word understand that a document being edited by other user.
Can i find document's editor (user who opens document with write access)
programatically.

Thanks for your assistance

When a user opens a document in Word, it creates another file in the
same folder, with the same name as the document but with the first two
characters replaced by "~$". This is called the "owner file". Among
other things, it contains the login name of the user who opened the
document, as a string starting in the second byte.