WORD 97 on XP - error opening document

J

Jeff

I recently moved over to an XP machine and installed
Office '97. I can use the programs fine, however when I
open a WORD document I receive an error message -
<Filename> is being used by <username>. Do you want to
make a copy? This happens on any document I open by
double-clicking the icon/filename. I had the same issue
with Excel, however I used the /unregserver and /regserver
command and it fixed the problem. Is there a similar item
for WORD?

thanks
 
M

ME

NEVERMIND - I just ran WINWORD /unregserver then
WINWORD /REGSERVER and now it works fine. It's the same
as the command used for Excel, it's just that I couldn't
find any documents on it on the MS knowledgebase
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

You can also use winword /r (you don't need to unregister it before
reregistering, either).
 
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