downside of this work around is that it turns off file locking altogether so two people could open a file for writing. If you have a small network and most... uch of an issue.
===== Solution One: Turning Off File Locking =====
Open the file /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice (generally /opt/openoffice2/program/s... es) and comment out the following lines:
<code>
# file locking now enabled by default
SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LO
