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")