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Me again, the OP.
I did not mention that when I was opening Word on my W10 PC, the "ribbon" (if that's still what it is called with all the options (File, Home, Insert, Draw, etc) was not appearing at all. I kept messing around with Word on my PC and somehow managed to get the ribbon back. Then created a file and edited it successrully - so held my breath and opened the Word doc from Dropbox that I need and holy cow, it opened normally, with the title bar/ribbon, and I was able to edit and save it.
This is all very mysterious and frustrating to me because I don't know how/why the title bar/ribbon disappeared and why THAT stopped me from editing, and don't even know how I got it back. But not having those options visible was enough to generate the very unhelpful "this modification is not allowed because the document is open for viewing only" message which frustrated me no end.
This no longer appears to be a Dropbox issue, I so I apologize for posting in the 1st place. Maybe something I posted can help someone else!
So - at this point, I am OK!
Me again, the OP.
I did not mention that when I was opening Word on my W10 PC, the "ribbon" (if that's still what it is called with all the options (File, Home, Insert, Draw, etc) was not appearing at all. I kept messing around with Word on my PC and somehow managed to get the ribbon back. Then created a file and edited it successrully - so held my breath and opened the Word doc from Dropbox that I need and holy cow, it opened normally, with the title bar/ribbon, and I was able to edit and save it.
This is all very mysterious and frustrating to me because I don't know how/why the title bar/ribbon disappeared and why THAT stopped me from editing, and don't even know how I got it back. But not having those options visible was enough to generate the very unhelpful "this modification is not allowed because the document is open for viewing only" message which frustrated me no end.
This no longer appears to be a Dropbox issue, I so I apologize for posting in the 1st place. Maybe something I posted can help someone else!
So - at this point, I am OK!
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