Pdf_to_Word.png' alt='How To Edit A Read Only Microsoft Word File' title='How To Edit A Read Only Microsoft Word File' />How can I open a file as read only from Windows Explorer Another option if you are opening the file in an Office program is to follow the MS instructions. Open the Office program you need. Click the Office button, and Open. Browse to the file you want to open and select it. On the Open button at the bottom, click the arrow and choose Open as Read OnlyI tried this with Excel and it actually opened the file as read only. Edit Article wiki How to Group Objects on Microsoft Word. Three Parts Opening a Word Document Enabling the Drawing Toolbar Grouping Objects Community QA. GNcioVs0Fao/maxresdefault.jpg' alt='How To Edit A Read Only Microsoft Word File' title='How To Edit A Read Only Microsoft Word File' />Learn how to edit Clip Art in Microsoft Word documents in this tip from Alicia Katz Pollocks book Microsoft Word 2010 Tips Tricks. Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983 under the name MultiTool Word for Xenix systems. When using the ShiftRight Click, the Open as Read Only option in Explorer seemed to have no effect. I do not see an Open in Protected View option. My whole reason for opening the file as read only is so others can edit it while I have it open, so making the file read only wont work. I also dont want to go through 1. Im allowed to at work. I know this isnt technically opening it from Windows Explorer, but lots of people like me get here from Google and want to open something in an Office program. Cannot delete or rename a Word file through Windows Explorer. Hello Azam, thank you for your interest in my problem. Re Virus scan I use AVG and ran the scan with no problems detected. Re Safe mode, see my original post. I tried that without success. However. I did find a way to delete the file The DOS cmd line function DEL will delete the file. One must be careful, and make sure that absolutely nothing is referencing the file. The first time I tried to delete the file I had Windows Explorer open and. DEL command failed noting that the file was open in another application. When I closed the Explorer window and retried the DEL command, it workedUnfortunately it took me almost two days to think of trying the DOS command line utility. I wont forget it now. Thanks for responding. You ask if I have any issues and I still have another major unresolved problem. It is however a MS Word issue. If this is not your cup of tea, perhaps you can point one of the Word gurus at it. I posted this a couple of days ago on the Office Online site in the Word area. There have been no responses. Here is a copy of the post Word 2. Windows 7. I have a file called v. I was editing it Word went into a loop and after waiting half an hour I had to terminate Word using the task manager. When I reopened v. Word appears to have recovered the file properly but at the top of the window where the file name is shown, there is now the text Read Only. When I attempt to save the file Word tells me that since the current file is read only I have to give the file a new nane which I do v. Word exits. When I open v. I expected the read only attribute to be gone since the new name had been supplied. However file v. 2. Saving using save as v. I cannot get rid of the readonly attribute and thus every edit requires a new version of the file. If one checks the file properties in Windows Explorer the read only attribute is NOT set. His Drivers Radeon Hd 4350 more. These files that I could not delete are the older versions v. I note above. Any solution to this problem would be much appreciated.