Elena - thanks! That does look as though it might solve the problem. Being a complete idiot when it comes to things techie, I'll wait till Stuart gets home and ask him to do the necessary <G>. But looks very hopeful.
Even more inspired to get it fixed now because last night when I tried to save the new bit of writing I'd done on my current WIP it kept telling me I couldn't save it because X.doc was being used by LabRat.
I could only save to backup disk. Cue one freaked out author....
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