I have discovered that, although I purchased this copy of Microsoft Word, I did not somehow properly go through the activation steps. I am thinking that this might be the cause of not being able to use all the features and having files, that I know are in write mode and not protected, being able to be saved.

I have successfully now gone through the steps of activating my Microsoft Word app. I think I will post here the steps I went through because I had some stumbling blocks to work over and it might help someone and give me good karma.

Next I am going to see if this has fixed the issue I have.