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
    2017-09-06T08:06:00+00:00

    This worked for a brief time only. A file I opened yesterday, from my own hard drive had to be saved as a copy since it opened as "read only". I think the issue is to do with the file source itself and the way MS Office marks these as they are opened. I suspect Office has a glitch in the "Trust Centre".

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-09-06T07:47:48+00:00

    Do you have to open onedrive from that library in order for your files to function properly?

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-09-01T21:14:07+00:00

    Right click on the One Drive icon in your File Explorer> Properties>under Attributes UNCHECK the Read Only box.

    Click Apply

    Click OK

    Test to Verify.

    Peace

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  4. Stefan Blom 352K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-09-01T08:24:28+00:00

    Thanks for sharing this, which may help others.

    Note that "Microsoft" isn't replying to questions here—only users such as yourself. See "Who's Who in the Community" in the FAQ at https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/page/faq.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-09-01T02:57:19+00:00

    I am adding to what Adrian Gregory said: I went in and accessed the One Drive folder from c: users/owner/one drive.

    I did that and right clicked on onedrive (don't open the folder) and choose properties. Then I unchecked the box read-only. Then apply and it brought up a status bar and I could see my files cycling through and now they don't open read-only. Hopefully that is it!! No thanks to microsoft I might add!

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