WordPipe has two very important pre-requisites when running

1. Microsoft Word is not already running (especially with open documents).
2. No documents are opened by someone else (no sharing)

Both of these situations lead to file sharing violations. WordPipe may appear to hang, and you will need to Alt-Tab to Microsoft Word to close the 'Open Read Only dialog box.

This leads to our two recommendations when running WordPipe:

1. Please close ALL other applications. This ensures that no programs have a Word document open.
   
   If WordPipe says that Microsoft Word is still running, you may have to press Ctrl+Alt+Del to access the Task Manager and kill of all instances of WINWORD.EXE manually.
    
2. If you are running WordPipe across a network, file share or remote machine of any description, you MUST ensure that WordPipe has exclusive access to those files, either through running WordPipe after hours if you are guaranteed to have exclusive access, or by denying all users access to the files while WordPipe is being run.

Speed and Performance

To get the fastest speed out of WordPipe

• Ensure you disable virus scanning so that Microsoft Word will open documents faster
• Close all other running applications
• Increase the process priority of WINWORD.EXE in task manager.

See also

Running WordPipe from the command line.