Thanks for your bug. That's a feature of evolution, files are opened to a temporary directory and without it people were modifing them and saving changes to the temporary directory and having difficulties to find it again then. With the read-only mode you have to save it to a known location and then you can modify it. Closing since that's not a bug but a feature
** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged => Low Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- Evolution opens MicroSoft Office .doc files read only https://launchpad.net/bugs/50669 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs