Using a batch file to open a Word document that someone is using

Hi All,

I know I said I'd steer away from programming, but here I am again - stuck on a "simple" task ... As always your help would be appreciated.

What I have done so far is to write a batch file that opens a Word document (Office 2007). The document title changes every day and I am proud that I got it working ... until today ...

The issue today was that someone else on the network has the file open. Usually the file opens when using the

START %target%

(remember the %target% is made up of previous script to make todays document open it is in the form of a path so could easily be written as

START C:\Logs\TodaysLog

)

However when someone else has the file open and I run the script I get "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."

In this situation how can I get it to open a read only version of the document? I have tried with

START /r %target%

and

START %target% /r

but both fail.

I have the ERRORLEVEL bit to check its errored working so only need the bit to get the document open in "Read Only " mode.

Any ideas please guys?
Thanks in advance.