By using Protected View, you can read a file and see its contents while reducing the risks. For more information on Protected view and how to change settings, see this article: What is Protected View? If the file is stored on OneDrive and your OneDrive storage space is full, you will be unable to save the document until you are under your allotted space.
If Office is not activated, or if your subscription has expired, you could be in read-only Reduced Functionality Mode. Our experts and community members are discussing this topic in our Answers forums! Click that link to head over there, see what they're saying, and participate in the conversation if you like.
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Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Trust Center is a feature in Word that blocks certain documents from being fully opened with editing capabilities on your computer. MS Word actually has a number of features to protect you from various threats that are spread via Word files. This may be the reason why your documents always open in the read-only mode. Turning this option off should fix the issue for you.
Preview pane in Explorer shows the previews of your files, and for it to do that, it sometimes locks-up your files and prevents you from editing them. One of the possible ways to fix read only mode in Word is to change an attribute for your file. Directly opening the file from an archive sometimes prevents you from editing it. Why would hers be different?
Jimmy, I'm copying her files to a new temporary account now. That seems like a logical next step. I'll be interested to see if that fixes anything. I'm open to anything. This user is getting really frustrated, and rightly so.
She opens the document and never even notices it says read-only until she's worked on the document and is trying to save it. Preview file in file explorer? I've never bumped into this before So all you're doing is changing the View on Windows 10 to Details Pane?
It sounds like the Preview Pane in Office apps are a separate beast from the File Explorer preview pane. I tried getting rid of the preview pane in File Explorer, only to find it still active if I browsed for a file in Word.
I turned off the preview pane in Word and tried a few files myself. I didn't run into any read-only files. Of course, the user is the final tester. If this is the cause, I find this to be one of the stupidest Microsoft bugs I've learned about. Googling this shows it to be a holdover bug from Vista. Still in Windows 10? Preview locks the file to produce a thumbnail image of the document? And then you can't open the file because the thumbnail already locked it on your own machine?
I just don't know what to say about that. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks.
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