Document Open in Word Viewer, Word Has Read-Only Access
Article ID: 166063
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003
- Microsoft Word 97 Viewer
- Microsoft Office Word 2003
- Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
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.
STATUS
Microsoft
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
Additional query words: WV WD97 WD2000 WD2002 WD2003
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