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Microsoft Office document is "locked for editing by 'another user'"

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A few of my users are in and out of various Excel 2007 spreadsheets all day. One of them reports that "50% of the time" she tries to open a spreadsheet from the file server, an information message comes up stating: foo.xlsx is locked for editing by 'another user'. Open "Read-Only" or click "Notify"ā€¦

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Fix for: Microsoft Office document is "locked for editing by 'another user'"

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Straight from Microsoft KB 313472: This behaviour may occur if Word determines that the owner file for the document already exists. This may occur if one or more of the following conditions are true: Word previously quit improperly and, therefore, dā€¦

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