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
    2015-07-06T15:07:48+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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-04-16T18:06:10+00:00

    Nickuofm: this was the only thing that worked for me (nothing else worked). Every document that I opened (from any location) opened with the Read-Only option until I followed what you listed here. THANKS!

    Great to hear, JPDutch! Mine has been holding up since I posted it here that day, too.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-04-15T20:10:06+00:00

    Nickuofm: this was the only thing that worked for me (nothing else worked). Every document that I opened (from any location) opened with the Read-Only option until I followed what you listed here. THANKS!

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-02-06T16:16:54+00:00

    This cured the read-only issue for me when opening files in Office 2013

    Open File Explorer

    Right Click on the OneDrive

    Select Properties

    General Tab

    Attributes: if there is a little black square in the Read Only Box - click on it to remove

    Select Apply

    Select OK

    You will get a confirmation dialog that asks if you want to apply to all files & subfolders

    Select OK

    Another dialog will appear showing progress of updating file attributes

    It will go away when complete

    You Should have no more read only issues

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-02-06T15:52:19+00:00

    Adding OneDrive as trusted location makes no  difference.

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