With Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), when you open an Office document from SharePoint it will open in edit mode for shared use so that multiple people can work in the same document at the same time. How about when you have an instructional document saved to your team’s SharePoint site and you do not want them to accidentally make an edit to the document that they are only viewing. Is there anything else in Word that bugs you? Tell me about in the comments and I’ll see if there’s a fix.
If you’re in a situation like me, do yourself and your organization a favor and permanently fix whatever obnoxious Word files have this pop-up in it. Now that annoying pop-up shouldn’t show up again. Save your document so that the change takes effect. But if you just want to get rid of the “ The author would like you to open this as read-only…” prompt, click General Options… If you’re curious, you can poke around this menu. Now, to the left of the Save button is a little drop-down that says Tools. To do that, click File then Save As and then More options… You can disable this feature the same way you enable it.
Here’s what you have to do: Disable Microsoft Word Read-only RecommendationĪ thousand years ago, before Word document authors everywhere began using modern version control methods, you could build this annoying prompt into your Word doc whenever it’s opened. Me, and maybe you, too, since you’re reading this article.Īnyway, I found a way to put an end to this. To keep your changes, you’ll need to save the document with a new name or in a different location.Īrgh! First of all, if your Word document is so precious, then you should either password protect and encrypt your Word doc or, I don’t know, back it up and keep the master copy in a non-public location? In this age of SharePoint and Dropbox and Office 365 with versioning, check-ins, and check-outs, is there ever any reason why you would want to recommend a document be opened in read-only rather than just enforcing it? We can’t save this file because it’s read-only. Open as read-only?Īnd every time I open this, I click “No.” Because if you accidentally click “Yes,” then you get this message when you try to save it. The author would like you to open this as read-only, unless you need to make changes.
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