The third party software is also being used by about 15 other people in my
office and none of them are experiencing this problem with Normal.dot, which
also makes me think the problem is cause by some Word setting on my machine.

Roger

"Roger Marrs" wrote in message
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I am getting a dialog box stating that Normal.dot is already in use by
another user or application. I only get this message if I already have a
word document open and then launch Word from a third party application.
When I try to close the word document launched from the third party
application, I get the dialog box about Normal.dot. I've been running the
third party application for several months without any problems. So I'm
wondering whether there is some setting within Word that I modified that I
shouldn't have that has caused this problem.

Roger Marrs