I was just working on a document in Word 2003, and suddenly it is "locked for editing by Lisa" (me). I can't edit or do anything with it - it's read-only.

I was trying to mess around and figure out how to unlock it, and i also got an error message: "Changes have been made that affect the global template, normal.dot. Do you want to save these changes?"

Would really appreciate some help!! Basically I just need to make sure I don't lose the changes made to my document, because I had not saved it before Word locked. I can't even close the window.

In order to save my work, I tried right-clicking on the document in windows explorer > save as, and saving it in a different name in an attempt to save it - but it has NOT saved the latest version!
(I sent this saved version to a friend who sent it back by pasting it into an email so i could check whether it had saved the latest changes - because Word is completely locked!- and it has not saved them)



So please, can anyone advise how to either unlock without losing changes made to my document, or how to save it!
The most important thing is I just need to make sure the changes I made to my document are not lost!!

Thanks in advance!

Hi lisa,

Try copying the content to a new document and saving that.

As for saving the changes to the global template, I suggest you choose 'no'.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks for the reply, but I am unable to copy anything - since the file has suddenly locked and become "read-only".

Basically I just need to make sure the changes i made to my document are not lost, so need to unlock the document or somehow save it.

Cross-posted at:
http://www.techsupportforum.com/foru...me-585857.html
and
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...a-7d6862a128ce

Lisa, for cross-posting etiquette, please read: http://www.excelguru.ca/node/7

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]