I don't know if the problem is attributable to the fact that the client is running word 2002 on win98, but my code opens a word ole object and immediately adds a blank document and saves it to a temp directory. The document is made up of "lttr" + user id + '.doc'. In this case the user id is "CR", so the save overall resolves to "N:\temp\lltrcr.doc". I've not had a problem with this before, but in the case of this client, on the line that tells word to save:

oWord.WordBasic.FileSaveAs(m.l_tempdoc)

where l_tempdoc is the above path and file name, he is getting an ole error 0 that says that Word can't save the file because it is open elsewhere.

This is code from long ago, and I'd write it a bit differently today (using a document object), but...

He even gets this after a reboot. The file is not in use anywhere else - I've had it checked by their IT guy (they're on a novell network - I'm not sure of the version number, but it's recent).

Has anyone else ever run into this? Is is likely due to running Word 2002 on Win98? He seems to have no other problems running that combination - only in this case under our app.

Any suggestions as to where to look would be appreciated.

If not, I'll try changing the code to use document objects and see if it makes a difference, but since other clients don't seem to have an issue with this, I hesitate to fix what ain't broken.

Thanks

Alan