End Now. Repeat steps d and e for each occurrence of Winword. On the File menu, click Exit Task Manager.
Start Windows Explorer, and then browse to the folder that contains the document file that you tried to open when you received. Delete the owner file. The owner file is located in the same folder as the document that you tried to open. The owner file name uses the following. It begins with a tilde (~), followed by a dollar sign ($). The file name. extension is .
For example, the owner file for Document. Start Word. If Word asks you whether you want to load the changes that were made to the Global or Normal template, click No. Open your document. Additional note for documents shared over a network: If there are multiple people that could be editing the doc, it can sometimes be hard to figure out who might have the doc open.
As shown on Tech. Talk. Madness, the best way to find the answer is to use Computer Management on the system that hosts the shared file. Go to Computer Management - > System Tools - > Shared Folders - > Open Files to find out who has a document locked. If the user can't be contacted to disconnect themselves, you can forcefully do so by right clicking the locked file and selecting Close Open File (warning: the user might lose their changes).