title: How to edit a Word document that opens in read-mode in VBA
body: <p>I am editing Word documents I get from clients with VBA, and the clients often give them to me in an 'uneditable view'. Thus, I would like to 'enable editing' in within my macro before doing my tasks.</p>
  
  <p>Note that I did not say the document is in 'read-only' as I do not think it is (I do not see the <code>[read only]</code> text in the document title bar when I open it manually). I have also tried setting <code>readOnly=false</code> as described in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47360792/how-to-edit-a-read-only-word-document-vba">this post</a>, but it did not make a difference to how the document opened. what I am seeing when I open the document manually is a '2-page view' with arrows on the sides to page forward/back, and when I try to edit the document I see a status message in the lower-left corner of the document's frame: <code>This modification is not allowed because this document is opened for viewing only.</code> I can manually make the document editable by going to <code>View &gt; Edit Document</code>.</p>