Microsoft KB Archive/166063

= Document Open in Word Viewer, Word Has Read-Only Access =

Article ID: 166063

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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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

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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.

