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Open Word Document with Open URL

September 24, 201312 yr

Hi All

I have a script that stores a path in a field to a Word document on my computer. I then use the Open URL script step to open this file. All works perfectly - I can open the file as can other users on other computers.

The problem I have is if one user has the Word document open and then another user opens the same file it does not open this as read-only. If one opens the file from ones computer (not via the script) then Word warns the user that the file can only be opened as read-only.

With both copies open in normal mode only the last saved version will be present. Is there anything I can do differently to ensure that subsequent openings of the Word file get the read-only warning? I did try using Applescript thinking that moving some of the process out of FileMaker may enable the read-only dialog to display, but alas, no.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks