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Old 08-01-2020, 02:30 PM
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I have a Word 2000 document that gives me a "File In Use" message when I attempt to open it. Along with the document are several "~WRLxxxx.tmp" files. Attempts to delete any of these fail, so I saved the original document with a new name and can open that one without any problems.


How do I delete the original document and its temp files?
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Restart the computer and see if that lets you delete the files that have been left behind.

In theory, just closing Word should suffice, but perhaps there is a remaining instance of winword.exe which prevents you from deleting the temporary files.
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