Why does my newly created Word doc show as Read Only? #M365AMA

In this episode, the #M365AMA panel discusses the following community question:

“I use MS Office 365. When I create a new document in either Excel Or Word, when I save it says the document is now READ ONLY. If I try to save it again I have to add “r1” or something as a different name. Why is that? I know it might be related to the fact I have both business and personal Office 365 accounts and I don’t know how the tell which ones I am using when I open Excel for example. I am 71 and used to be extremely computer literate as I started using the in 1968. But now I am slightly confused. Any help appreciated.”

Check out the discussion here:

 

Participating in this discussion were:

• Christian Buckley @buckleyplanet 
• Hal Hostetler  @TVWizard
• Norm Young @stormin_30
• Sharon Weaver  @sharoneweaver
• Sean McDonough  @spmcdonough

Some relevant notes/links shared by the team:

• A discussion around “Word Changes Document to Read-Only Randomly” [https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/word-changes-document-to-read-only-randomly/5516ac06-90ea-4a40-80b4-2a7d63e262c0]
• Office makes documents Read Only, relevant article by Spiceworks [https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1499872-office-makes-documents-read-only]