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
    2015-04-15T20:10:06+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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  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
    2015-07-06T15:07:48+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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  4. 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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  5. 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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