When I open a file from a network folder, Word always opens it in readonly manner. How to finish Office from doing this. I want information technology to only open up it every bit normal and I don't need function to do whatever security procedures.

Any idea how I can get this resolved?

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asked Oct 31, 2013 at six:39

  1. Run the Office 2010 application with the problem. Notice that this procedure has to exist washed individually with each of the applications in MS Office suite (groovy!).
  2. Click on the Office push button on the upper left-hand corner and select "Options"
  3. In the "Options" dialogue box, select "Trust Center" (on the left)
  4. Click on "Trust Center Settings" (on the right)
  5. Select "Protected View"
  6. Disable whatever of all the protected view options by unticking the check boxes.
  7. Click OK when washed.

From http://quantumtunnel.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/microsoft-office-2010-issue-with-opening-files-as-read-only

P.S. Do you have write permissions?

answered Oct 31, 2013 at 8:17

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Become into Give-and-take Options there's a check box under Start up options: Open up e-mail attachments and other uneditable files in reading view. Uncheck the box and click OK. This should remove the readonly.

answered Feb 8, 2016 at twenty:49

Try turning off the Preview Pane and Details Pane in the File Open dialog box from within the Office application. If you are opening the files directly from Windows Explorer, try turning off the Preview Pane in Windows Explorer as well.

There seems to be an outcome with the Preview Pane issuing a temporary lock on the file in lodge to preview its contents. If the file is opened while this lock is in identify, information technology will open in read-just way. The problem is worse with larger files over slower network connections.

For more than information, and other possible solutions/workarounds, visit The Definitive 'Locked File' Postal service.

answered May 6, 2015 at 20:53

I but went to file properties, and applied Read Only, and afterwards that removed over again (click apply to accept effect). After that, the file started to open correctly.

answered Apr five, 2016 at 10:05

If you've tried everything else and information technology's all the same opening equally Read-Only despite that box not beingness checked in the properties. Close all instances of MS Word and effort again. That was the only thing that concluded up working for me.

answered Dec 19, 2016 at 22:48

This postal service solved my problem, I recall best is to try disabling the add-in, they may cause word to be opened in safe more than, at least this happened in my case. Please read @DanielJackson's answer in that post.

answered Mar sixteen, 2018 at 14:41

Non sure if this is the instance for anyone else, every bit I have tried and failed several times using the to a higher place suggestions. Only to realise that I opened the file which was in a compressed folder... You might desire to cheque that.

answered May 16, 2019 at five:22

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If the file was downloaded then right click on the file > Properties and and then unblock it

unblock file

If the file was open directly from network so cheque the file'due south permissions

answered Oct 31, 2013 at 8:fourteen

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If word opens every bit 'read only' close information technology and go to chore manager by alt + ctrl+dlt. and so you will observe a winword file under process fifty-fifty you lot close your give-and-take file. finish this winword and re open your word file and information technology is non read only. This worked for me.

answered February 27, 2020 at v:27

After dedicating hours of my life to trying every one of the in a higher place suggestions, I found the problem was not 'read-only' manner, but 'read' mode!

All I had to practice was click on print layout (the open volume icon) in the Condition Bar on the footer of a Word page. Now feeling rather foolish; just am not too proud to tell the story in example others may be affected by the same (hopefully) temporary dumbness.

But thanks to all of the in a higher place contributors for their clear explanations. I take learned from them.

answered Jul 19, 2020 at 16:26

I found that I had a decadent Excel Add In (Asap Utilities) installed. I re-installed information technology and the problem (after a few minutes of opening, the files already opened in Excel became 'Read Only) seems to have gone abroad.

answered Nov 21, 2020 at 9:16

For me information technology was cured past turning off the 'auto salvage' feature ... Why? Who knows, but it worked.

answered Nov xiii, 2021 at 1:45

I have just encountered this trouble with Microsoft Excel. The mistake message was proverb the problem comes from the sharing options. Lo and behold, when I right-clicked my problematic excel file, clicked on share with,and then clicked on my username, the problem has disappeared. Now I tin happily modify and save my file. I have merely plant this solution so now I simply hope information technology lasts through windows explorer/calculator restart. I hope this simple solution works for others likewise.

answered Sep eight, 2015 at sixteen:17

  1. Word >>> File
  2. In the "Options" dialogue box, select "Trust Center" (on the left)
  3. Click on "Trust Center Settings" (on the right) THEN "Trusted Locations"
  4. Where practise you lot store your files? Add your file directories to the 'Trusted Locations' List

MicroSoft has default locations to store your files. If you store your data elsewhere on your PC or Network, then add the directories to "Trusted Locations' List then that your files do not open as protected.

Keep all cyberspace and Outlook attachment files protected under the "protected view" section

answered December 20, 2019 at eighteen:46

My antivirus (Avast) tricked me into accepting some sort of ransomware shield feature which took it upon itself to lock a bunch of my folders including My Documents. This caused the Read Only disaster. I went into Avast|Protection|RansomwareShield and disabled the whole stupid shield (which was too blocking -- er...protecting -- My Photos and a agglomeration of other folders). MS Word worked fine after that.

answered Dec 15, 2020 at 17:36

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