I have a question about Microsoft Word 2003?

If you see the following message when you try to modify a document in Word 2003 or Word 2002: "This command is not available because the document is locked for editing," your Word program might not be activated. To check, do the following:

On the Help menu, click Activate Product.

If Word is activated, a message tells you that the product was already activated. If Word is not activated, the Office Activation Wizard appears to guide you through the activation process.

Note You can open a Word document even if the program is not activated, but you cannot use many commands and you cannot save the document.

the method will be very similar for all Windows operating systems and versions of Word

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Close all applications and reboot the computer.

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open windows explorer and search for *.tmp, ~*.do?, and ~*.wbk, delete all that are found (Ctrl+A then press delete) If you get the message, 'Unable to delete filename', Ctrl+click to deselect that file and press delete to continue deleting the remainder

3.

go to the Windows/Temp folder and make sure if it is empty. If it isn't empty select and delete the contents.

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open the display properties dialog and click on the screensaver tab. set to none and then select the power button. deselect all power saving options. close

5.

stop any AntiVirus utility running before proceeding with the next stage.

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on the desktop, right-click on the Recycle Bin and empty the recycle bin

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open windows explorer, right-click on the main drive (usually C drive) and select properties.

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click on tools tab and then under error checking (scandisk) click on “check now”. exact wording differs slightly between versions of windows

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make sure that error checking (scandisk) is set to do a thorough scan of both system and data areas and make sure that “Automatically Fix System File Errors” is checked

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when scnadisk is finished, click on the defragmentation button and let Windows defrag the drive.

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do the same for any other drives installed.

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when complete, reboot the computer; open Word and test locked file again

Was this a trial version? If it was, and the trial expired, you won't be able to use the trial to ediit documents any more (though you can still open and view them).

If this is the case, you can either pay for a license for Office (about $125), or download OpenOffice.org for free. OpenOffice.org is a free, open-source office productivity suite that is compatible with Microsoft Office. You can download it for free right now and use it to open, edit and finish your report.

I use OpenOffice.org myself, it's free and easy to use.

It is usually because the Microsoft product is not activated.

Copy and paste the entire report into another word application, (ctrl+A ctrl+c then ctrl v ) into the new document.

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