Why are my onedrive documents opening in read-only mode after installing office 365 home edition?

Anonymous
2014-03-26T17:51:19+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2015-07-27T01:11:55+00:00

    Hi - I'm having a similar problem: Office files opening as read-only (Word, Excel, even Access), and they won't let me do a "save as" with the same file name. I'm using Win 8.1; noticed a reply earlier in this thread that mentioned reinstalling Windows did the trick, so I'm wondering if the Windows 10 upgrade will accomplish the same thing.

    I've tried unchecking the Read-Only box at various file and folder levels multiple times, but it doesn't stick and doesn't fix the problem.

    Also - after setting up this Surface with my Microsoft account, I subsequently changed my primary account alias from a hotmail account to a gmail account. Is it possible that is causing this problem? I considered changing the account on the Surface to the new primary, but I'm afraid of locking myself out of the device altogether, which seems like a bad idea.

    All suggestions appreciated.

    [=sfc=]

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-07-25T02:53:55+00:00

    Unfortunately, after following that procedure, the folders revert back to read only immediately. 

    There re is something deeper at work here than a simple change in attributes. 

    But thank you for trying to help.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-07-24T16:08:05+00:00

    I also had this problem after installing Office 365. To solve it for all documents:

    Open File Explorer

    Right click on the Documents folder

    Select Properties

    Click on the black box next to "Read Only" -- it should deselect it for you

    Click apply

    Confirm ok

    Hopefully you will have success with this!

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-07-20T00:13:20+00:00

    I just started experiencing this problem as. It is causing all sorts of problems for me.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-07-06T15:20:03+00:00

    PERFECT!  Microsoft needs to put this at the TOP of the answers so that this is not such an act of Congress to read our files!  This worked immediately.  Thank you, LNCinc.

    Well - it worked for the moment, but when I close the PROPERTIES and reopen, the READ-ONLY box is checked again.  So frustrating.  Why would it default to something so cumbersome, and reinstalling Windows seems like a ridiculous overkill solution that I hope is not the actual answer.  Grrrrrrr.  Stupid read-only!!!

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