MS Office 365 foibles

[Hawkmoon]

Does anyone here use MS Office 365? (Does anyone here NOT use Office 365?)

I spent the afternoon at the home of my pastor, helping him upload revisions to his book to the Amazon KDP self-publishing site. While we were working, we wanted to look at the revised manuscript in Word. I had worked on it at home, adding on a bibliography that was omitted from the original version. I copied the revised file from a thumb drive onto his computer (Windows 11 running Office 365) and then opened the file. It opened in view-only mode, and would NOT allow us to edit.

Whazzup wit dat? I used Word 2019 for my edits. When I create documents at home and take them to work, my computer at work doesn't cause any problems.

Suggestions welcome.

[lee n. field]

dont' have office anything here at home, but I have customers on 365.

I think there's a place in options, where you can specified trusted locations for files.

[WLJ]

(Does anyone here NOT use Office 365?)

LibreOffice user
Drop MS-Office since MS decided I couldn't reinstall 2013 office after a system wipe and expected me to buy a whole new copy.

[Cliffh]

(Does anyone here NOT use Office 365?)

I use LibreOffice also.  Don't want to spend that much money for a word processor and light-weight spreadsheet use.

[JTHunter]

  Humpf.
I'm still using Office 2000 on a Windows 7 machine. 

[Boomhauer]

Have to use it at work. Everything is clunky as *expletive deleted*it because Microsoft wanted to make stuff look fancy.

[Hawkmoon]

A bit of Internet surfing led to the unsurprising discovery that a LOT of people seem to have encountered the same issue, beginning in mid-2022 with the roll-out of Microsoft 365 version 2206. It apparently has something to do with how Word handles "trusted documents" (whatever those are), and the alleged solutions offered on the Microsoft "help" site -- as usual -- don't agree with one another, and don't seem to make any sense.

I've suggested to the good Padre that, considering his use of the software, he should save his money and just use FreeOffice.