I have posted this [2] times BEFORE my postings on piracy and theft of
software so the lack of response has nothing to do with that. Either
someone doesn't know, care or thinks the problem is not worth
answering. I've seen some people get answers here, many times.

Anyway, here is the problem.
WORD97 and EXCEL97 both show an error when opening a saved document,
spreadsheet.

it says "file already open would you like to make a copy"
or it says "cannot open because file is already open are you sure"

I 'never' open a file when this doesn't happen.

I have the original cd.

So, is there some fix to this or what?

Will anyone help on this [3rd] attempt?