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Iron Contributor

Jun 26, 2018

Document in "Read-only" mode all the time

Hi, I tried to find a solution here but I was not successful. I have SharePoint library and when we want edit word document in desktop application, document is opened as a "Read-only". Do you have an...

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MichaelDano

Brass Contributor

Oct 19, 2020

Mirek_N I have had the same experience after a colleague did some experiments with Content Approval. In Libray Settings > Versioning Settings, I set the "Require content Approval for submitted items" to "No".

My colleague is working on some document Flow and I need to look into what causes the "Read only" issue.

ldodero
Copper Contributor
Jan 27, 2021
Just wanted to mention I went through a bunch of the steps on this thread and none worked. I found that the user's Excel was signed in with two accounts: one was our admin 365 account and one was the user's. Our admin only has read permissions on the Sharepoint library, so I believe that's what was causing the issue. I opened Excel, clicked on the login on the top right and signed out our profile, then signed the user out and back in and the issue was resolved.