My bet is that while you were testing, you opened the document in a hidden
instance of MSWord.

You could use this to see if the file is open before you start:
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=138621
Microsoft's IsFileOpen function.

Depending on what version of Windows you're using, you might be able to kill
that hidden instance of MSWord.

Alt-ctrl-delete
task manager (maybe)
processes (look for winword.exe)

I used a .vbs script when I was testing your other post:

dim myWord
On Error Resume Next
Set myWord = GetObject(, "Word.Application")
If Err.Number = 429 Then
msgbox "Word is not running"
else
myWord.visible = true
end If
On Error GoTo 0
Set myWord = nothing

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Just copy into notepad and save it as Unhide.vbs

Then you can double click (in windows explorer) to unhide any instances (and
there could be several).

Unhide, close, unhide, close, etc until you run out of them.



kaiser wrote:

Hello
I am trying to open a WORD document from within an EXCEL macro, which I
manage to do successfully, however, sometimes it prompts me the
following message

File "destination.doc" is locked for editing by Michael
Do you want to
(a) Open a Read only Copy
(b) Create a local copy and merge your changes later
(c) Receive notification when the original is available

When this message appears (which seems to be intermitantly) I would
like hte excel macro to automatically select option a.
How do I do this?

I am opening the doc with the following line in the excel macro

Set wordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
wordApp.Documents.Open ("c:\Temp\destination.doc")

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Dave Peterson