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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Paolo Francese" <francese at polito dot it> wrote in message
news:3C28F5A2-40B0-4006-A2B5-5BBE2FE2588E@microsoft.com...
> On a Windows XP machine member of a Windows 2003 domain when I try to open
> a
> word document on a shared folder and the document is already open from
> another user, I got the following error:
> Word experienced an error trying to open file.
> Try these suggestions.
> - Check the file permission...
> - Make sure there is sufficient free memeory...
> - Open the file with Text Recovery...
>
> In this installation word is part of the Office 2003 pro suite.
>
> When the document is not opened from anyone I've no problem.
> On other machines with similar installation I have not any problem.
>
> May anyone help me?