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Re: does MS Word have a bug, or is it just me?

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From: Henning Pape-Santos
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 02:19
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murphy@npri6.npri.com (David P. Murphy) writes:

> for the 1e6th time i have closed a window in MS Word and jumped to the deskto
> (this is in MultiFinder of course) and found that the file is still locked.
> 
> %$@$^%@#$%!!!!
> 
> am i doing something stupid??  the manual is (surprise) of no assistance.
> why does it keep a file locked even after i've closed it?
> 
> save my life, i'm going down for the last time . . .

Don't go mad. This is Microsoft. That inexcusable behavior is 
still with us in version 5 as well. There's nothing you can do 
about it short of getting a different word processor. Even 
complaining to MS about it apparently is to no avail. . . .

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Subject: Re: does MS Word have a bug, or is it just me?
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