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
    2014-04-27T12:31:48+00:00

    Download the file to the local drive and open it from there.

    This is not a solution. Why is this occurring and how can it be fixed?

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-04-27T15:53:12+00:00

    YES! this is driving me crazy.  I'm working on a project and need to create a new file over and over again.  When I try to change the settings, it immediately reverts back to Read-Only.  Why can't we get a clear answer on this? Raju, I appreciate your attempt to help but you responded by asking us questions. 

    1. It is all Word Documents.
    2. I am accessing them through One Drive.

    2a) You did not follow this question with instructions.  Am I to imply from your question that I/we should first be opening up Word and then opening up our files through the program instead of clicking directly on our files? 

    2b) If so, that is pretty clunky

    1. This direction seems to imply that some of us have a One Drive with a bug?  If so, will you be sending out updates in the near future?
    2. Well, that is a round-about dismissal of our concerns.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-05-08T13:18:38+00:00

    How is there still no answer to this question?  This is REALLY frustrating!  And it still opens as read only when you open it through the program and not through One Drive.

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  4. 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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  5. 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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