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I work with windows98 word 97.
From time to time I receive the usual error message “this program
peformed..” etc, and then word closes . When I try to open again my
work file the program announces that “the file is already in use. Do
you want to make a copy?”
I can then work properly on the copy, but the former work file remains
anywhere in background, and I don’t succeed to find it.
How can I find and load the original file?


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Try this:

1. Ctrl+Alt+Delete to get the "Task Manager"

2. Click on "Applications"

3. Find the document in the list

4. Click on it to highlight the document

5. Click on "End Task"


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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/DocInUse.htm and
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

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"idr " wrote in message
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I work with windows98 word 97.
From time to time I receive the usual error message “this program
peformed..” etc, and then word closes . When I try to open again my
work file the program announces that “the file is already in use. Do
you want to make a copy?”
I can then work properly on the copy, but the former work file remains
anywhere in background, and I don’t succeed to find it.
How can I find and load the original file?


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thanks turmoil but I do not find "task manager' on the ctrl+alt+del pop
menu, neither . perhaps it has some other name?
I had the same error just now. I must make a copy of the document and
then rename it and delete the former one. It is not so complicated but
troublesome.
any idea how to find the original one?
thanks


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Here is a link that will help you find files for Windows '98. You can
specify the day it was created or specific words in the document to
narrow down your search.

http://www.bcschools.net/staff/Windows98.htm#FindFiles

Does the "in use" happen on a new blank document?

If these files that are causing you to display the "in use" message are
the same ones you have been working on then you may have a corrupt
normal.dot on some of these documents. You can find the normal.dot and
delete and it will re-create it.








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thanks


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If none of these options work please post back because someone else may
be able to pick up something that was missed.

Good luck!




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