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I'm opening a word document from my Onedrive folder on my local machine and it's opening in Word 365 in read-only mode. Why is this and why can't I open the document in Word 2010?
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See if the procedures in the first post in
overcome the problem. If so, it is something that has been brought to the attention of Microsoft and they are working on an official update with a real fix.
I'm having the same problem. I downloaded Windows 10 and everything worked fine for several days. I then activated my OneDrive account. After that, all my Office 365 files open only in Read-Only mode. I tried to unsync OneDrive but when I rebooted, I lost access to my Start Menu and Microsoft Edge. I did a System Restore to the latest Windows update and got access back to my Start menu, but Microsoft Edge is still disabled. All my Office 365 files still open only in "Read-Only" mode. I also notice that when I try to save a new file in my Documents folder, it says I don't have permission and asks if I want to save to my Documents folder. When I say yes and try to save, I get the same error message. So I can't save any documents to the Documents folder because the system does not recognize me as having Administrator permissions, although I'm the only user on this computer and I have Administrator rights. Does anyone know whether Microsoft has a solution to this problem?
The read only attribute reset after applying.
I'm afraid I wound up doing that when I upgraded to Windows 10. Definitely a pain (and I wish they'd fix the way OneDrive syncs in Wind10).
Thanks!
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This is an issue that crops up across Windows versions / Office / OneDrive versions. Had the same issue with Windows 10 running Office 2016.
The fix is to unsync everything from OneDrive.
Delete any LOCAL files that remain on your PC (they will have red X against them).
Resync OneDrive to your PC.
Bit of a pain if you have loads of files, but the only fix that I've got to work. Good luck!