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I'm working with documents stored on my local drive, and whenever I double-click on one to open and edit it, Word starts up and presents it in read-only mode. If I close Word and then immediately double-click the document again, it opens up without the read-only indicator.
These are documents which are edited every day. I'm wondering if the fact that they're stored in a folder which is monitored by a file synchronization application has anything to do with this.
Secondly, when I bought Office 365 Home Premium online, it appeared that my only option was the monthly plan, which ostensibly is more expensive than the yearly plan. I don't see any way to change my account from monthly to yearly. Am I missing something?
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If the document originated from the Internet or was received as an attachment to an email message, you should save it to the local drive and then right click on it and select Properties and then click on the Unblock button. It can then be opened in Word in the normal editing mode.
Awesome! Thanks. The exact solution I was looking for in my situation.
I would not be surprised if there was something that prevented you from specifying the root folder of the C: drive and all of its subfolders as trusted locations.
I did this, added C:\ and told it to propagate to all subdirectories.
Did not fix the problem.
Changed all the attributes listed on all the responses in this chain.
Still doesn't help.
Any other ideas?
I hate this new security thing they've added (I guess win7) ... I just created a file last night and now if i double click on it, it opens up as Read-Only. I have to right-click and hit Edit for it not to... wondering if it's because I sent it to a coworker to look over. but he did not change and send back and I work on what he changed. I opened it back up and made changes. now it only opens in read only mode. ridiculous. I added the trust center locations of my file and that still does not work...
Time jump forward five minutes...
Okay, so I looked at the properties of my file and the owner was 'administrators' ... whut?
I changed the file owner to myself and reopen the file now and it is not in read-only mode.
I think having the file owner reset to Administrators caused this issue. Why the file ownership was changed to Administrators is beyond me, and to me is a bug that needs to be squashed. (i'm on a company laptop on a company network but that shouldn't be why ... )
I hate the way windows 7 does security permissions and always says you don't have permission to change this or that, but then asks if you want to continue anyway .... 'maybe' it is more secure, but it is rightly annoying...
I hope this fixed my issue and fixes someone else's, too.
I run windows 7 and office 2010.
Please forgive grammatical errors as I couldn't be bothered with them right now...
Richard