Microsoft KB Archive/33550

Glossary Entries Disappear in Network Word

PSS ID Number: Q33550 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

4.00n 5.00 5.50 6.00

MS-DOS

= SUMMARY =

When you start Microsoft Word for DOS version 4.0n, 5.0, or 5.5, Word attempts to find the glossary file NORMAL.GLY from the current directory. If located, Word opens it with read-write privileges for you only and locks the file to all others.

If the file is locked because someone has already started Word from the same directory, Word uses the default glossary. In this case, only the default glossary entries display, and it may appear that the entries in NORMAL.STY have disappeared. The filename field in Transfer Glossary Save is also blank. It is blank because someone else is using it.

Microsoft does not recommend that more than one person at a time start Word from the same directory. This practice should be discouraged. If you want a glossary to be shared by more than one person, give the file a read-only attribute using the MS-DOS ATTRIB command or the RDONLY utility supplied with Network Word and described in the “Microsoft Word Network Administrator’s Guide.”

KBCategory: kbother kbnetwork KBSubcategory: Additional reference words: 4.00n 5.00 5.50 ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1994.