Office programs open documents in read-only

When you open a Microsoft Office 2003 or a 2007 Microsoft Office document in Microsoft Internet Explorer, the document opens with read-only permissions, and you cannot make changes to the document.

Source <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/870853>

This problem can be solved depending on the office version with a registry key unter HKEY_Current_User

• For Office XP
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Common\Internet\OpenDocumentsReadWriteWhileBrowsing = 1
• For Office 2003
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Internet\OpenDocumentsReadWriteWhileBrowsing = 1
• For the 2007 Office system
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Internet\OpenDocumentsReadWriteWhileBrowsing = 1

Browse to the key KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Internet



Create a new dword



Enter the name of the dword Value "OpenDocumentsReadWriteWhileBrowsing"



Enter the value 1 to activate this feature.