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Old 03-01-2023, 10:42 AM
Lord_Xarzu Lord_Xarzu is offline How Do I Unlock My File Windows 10 How Do I Unlock My File Office 2021
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I have put off buying Microsoft Word for a long time and I had been relying on Open Office. But due to the professional nature of my work lately and due to some formatting issues, I decided to take the plunge and buy Microsoft Word.

The Problem I am now having is that the file I am trying to edit is "locked". I do not see any menu options to unlock the file. Please help !
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See How do I unlock a file? posted this morning on the Microsoft Answers forum.
If that was your post, please read a Message to Forum Cross-Posters.



Another one: How Do I Unlock a File for Editing? - Microsoft Community Hub

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See How do I unlock a file? posted this morning on the Microsoft Answers forum.
If that was your post, please read a Message to Forum Cross-Posters.



Another one: How Do I Unlock a File for Editing? - Microsoft Community Hub
That is a good read and I can understand how someone might feel if someone takes the time to help someone and yet they are asking several different web forums at the same time. I will take the advice and not ask the same question on too many web forums.

On the other hand, the mystery continues. I have not yet been able to figure out how to unlock my file.
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Follow up on the posts there.
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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.
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