I have a co-worker that I regularly share documents with to get her input. For some reason, a couple that I've worked on this week are restricted. She cannot open them from Outlook. This is how we always work and I never try to protect my documents. I did have a problem today with Office 365 hanging and seemingly only offering the "info" tab and maybe Word thinks I did something there but I didn't. This has never happened before.
How can I make my documents public and open to accessing and editing? I only release them to the public on our website as PDF files but that's not until we've finished editing.



By the same token, I wish that I could make Word 2016 stop assuming every Word document is read-only to start. That's almost never appropriate here. However, making my documents accessible by co-workers is more important.


Thanks for any suggestions that you may have.