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Shared Word files on Onedrive are read-only and cannot be edited

ryosk25 546 Reputation points
2022-10-04T13:35:50.003+00:00

An employee at work has the following problem

(1) A user shares a Word file saved on Onedrive with multiple people.
(2) Among the shared users, only a specific user is able to edit the file because it is read-only.
(3) When the URL of the shared Onedrive is accessed, the file is opened in Office Online and can be edited.
(4) When switching from Office Online to the desktop application, the file becomes read-only.

Does anyone know how to cancel the read-only mode or how to make it possible to edit?
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  1. Lisa R 0 Reputation points
    2023-02-16T16:04:51.7533333+00:00

    I'm still having this problem. Is there an answer?

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  2. Luis M. Lozano 0 Reputation points
    2023-02-17T10:35:34.1766667+00:00

    I'm having the same problem. When will we be able to share word files in OneDrive, save them, and work on them again? Nowadays, I can only open the saved files as read-only.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-06-22T09:33:27.8833333+00:00

    Can we have an update on this as it is still an issue

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  4. CM 0 Reputation points
    2023-10-18T10:44:42.1266667+00:00

    Is there any update on this? We're also having this problem in my workplace, trying to share pupil input records between all the staff working with the pupils.

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  5. Hegvold, Kristin 0 Reputation points
    2024-07-24T06:10:28.6366667+00:00

    Is there a solution to this problem as it seems i am having the same issue here between 2 users.

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