When i re-open the doc (either from the 'Recent' files in Word OR by double-clicking the doc in Finder on my Mac) it opens as READ-ONLY.I am simply saving and closing my Word doc on my local hard drive.I guess I don't really care if i can turn it off permanently, especially since - from what you say - it was probably designed for people who are opening Word documents within emails, or making changes with docs being sent etc etc.īut MY PROBLEM REMAINS, and it is even simpler (and more troubling) than that, as outlined here: I guess you're responding directly to the title of my question, 'How do I turn off READ ONLY permanently?' (which i copied from the old post i found - i thought it might trigger a response because it was an old question still not answered). It's a 'feature': the message bar will always appear, by design. To the best of my knowledge, that cannot be done.