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
    2014-05-21T14:01:29+00:00

    I finally just reinstalled Windows 8 out of frustration with this problem. I had to have Onedrive working properly. That fixed it. The Windows 8 reinstall was a breeze. Happy as can be. I wish I knew what caused this but a reinstall worked for me.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-05-21T13:41:18+00:00

    Hello Pastor,

    What happens if you save and Excel or PowerPoint file?

    Do you face the same issue if you save other Office application and edit using One Drive?

    Are you able to edit and save the file if you save the file locally on the computer and then upload to One Drive?

    Provide us more information to check and help you better.

    Thank you.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-05-19T22:39:42+00:00

    My issue is opening a word document (edition does matter) and saving it on one drive.  Then when I try and save the one drive word doc, if I made changes, if won't allow me to do so unless I keep doing a save as.  This is not good or efficient.  Please fix or at least give us direction about what to do. 

    Thank you

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  4. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-05-19T22:37:09+00:00

    You may need to set your OneDrive folder as a trusted location under File>Options>Trust Center>Trust Center Settings.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-05-19T21:59:06+00:00

    All my Word and Excel files are opening in read-only too. It didn't use to be like this except for the past week it seems. I have to open and then Save As in another folder. When I copy the files back to OneDrive I need to have Administrator authorization. Something happened. I've been "Googling" (yeah, not "Binging") for the past week looking for an answer. Microsoft, this must be a big issue, can we please get a solution?

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