That will open it up in such a way that you can edit it and save your changes as normal.īut do make sure you close it quickly again after you've done your deliberate individual edits, in case something goes wrong and you overwrite other stuff without realising it! Troubleshooting tip - still read only? If you later want to make changes to that document, just click No when the "Open as read-only?" window pops up. How to edit the "read only" Word document After you've entered your password, the "Open as read-only?" box will pop up. This still works if you've password protected the document. Then, if you've inadvertently highlighted stuff in the document and your keyboard goes haywire but you don't notice and it wipes out important stuff and you save it anyway without thinking (you can tell I've been through that!), it won't let you overwrite the original document - it will make you save it as a new document with a different name. Just hit Enter (or Alt+y) or click Yes, in order to open it as read-only. In future, when you try to open that document (whether direct or through a shortcut), it will come up with a box like this:
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