Talk:Microsoft Office/Opening a Word File as Read Only

OS dependent
It should be mentioned in the second chapter that it is OS dependent. It probably was working in XP. It is no more possible since Vista, as there is no more "File types" tab. (See e.g. discussion here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/itprovistadesktopui/thread/0ee43527-8d6e-4da3-80dc-80058215d7e6) About other operating systems I do not know. 188.23.193.115 (discuss) 00:24, 19 January 2013 (UTC) We should address how to avoid opening MS Word files as "read only". As of December 1, 2015 (and possibly earlier), some people are having a problem with trying to open, modify and save MS Word documents. Seems that Word files can be opened and modified but then MS prevents saving with the modified file because it reclassified the doc as a "read only". (This reclassification cannot be seen under file properties.) This is the case with (at least) both the latest version of Word under Windows 10 and Word within MS Office Professional 2010 under Windows 7. As of December 29, 2015, support Engineers in MS's  answers.microsoft. com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files were unable to provide a solution or acknowledgment of the program glitch.