Persistent owner file ~$ in Word 2003

Question

I have a VBA application that will iterate thru a folder of Word docs and edit them. It will save them in a subfolder called "Temp". When I run a second iteration thru the "Temp" folder of files it stops because it encounters  an owner file beginning with ~$ . The owner file is always of the last edited file. How can I close this file or change the code to not even attempt to open it? Thanks for the help. PS. The files are opened and saved on a network drive.

Answer 1

These temp files get created when a document is opened (mostly when the document contains images, tables etc) and get automatically closed. At times they persist and are a nemesis

One possible option is to tweak the loop that gets  the word document. You can check for the file name, and skip the file and proceed to the next one.

If the file is already open then you can try

If InStr(1, ActiveDocument.Name, "~$") Then
    ActiveDocument.Close False
End If



Cheers
Shasur

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Answer 2

Thanks Shasur. I thought I wasn't doing something right when closing the file. It is strange
because in some editing sessions it will not appear.