Ms Word Mac 2011 Save Read Only Problems

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Dear all,
I am new to this community and have tried looking for an answer to my question, but have not found a solution in the answers of previous threads.. So here goes!
I am working on a MacBook Air, 2012, OS X Mavericks version 10.9.4, Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 version 14.0.0. Working on my thesis (a 917 KB document), my Word document has started to give a similar error every 5-10 minutes, saying: 'this file is read-only. To save a copy, click OK, and give the document a new name in the Save dialog box' (Word Work File A_ ...... asd). I've tried this many times, but the error keeps on popping up, regardless of whether I save the document to a memory stick or to my hard drive. More recently, it has also seemed Word has been functioning less well, with the document turning completely blank every now and then after the message has popped up.
One reply I found somewhere (http://www.msofficeforums.com/word/2...read-only.html) was that it may be caused by 'left-over temp files'.. I tried to delete these using this explanation (http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm), but it is written for Windows users and I could not figure out how to 'translate' the second part to a Mac, and also was not sure whether this could in fact be the cause of the problem in my situation.

Using Word from Office 2011 under Snow Leopard, if I use the normal 'PrintSave. More discussions in Acrobat Macintosh (read-only). The problem occurs when saving a text document (MS Word 2011 or Apple Text. The problem only occurs when your document contains OpenType PostScript fonts.

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I also looked at my Word preferences (Word > Preferences > Security > 'Read-only recommended' is not checked) and document/folder preferences (via he Finder's Get Info dialog), and have set all boxes (for myself, 'staff' and 'everyone') to 'read and write', but that has not helped either..

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Hope someone might be able to help me out!! Scared to loose the (important) document..

Thanks in advance!!
Nienke