AFP allows copying of open files

Hello to All,
We're testing our new Xserve with Mac OS X Server 10.5.2 and we noticed that it allows Excel files to be copied even when one client has the file open, but does not allow this action with Word files. Also, with our old 10.2 server this action is not allowed with both Excel and Word files. By the way, we have Office 2004.
What would be the ideal action, to allow copying or not when a file is open and being modified by another client?
If to not allow, is there a way to configure that?
Thank you very much.

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