Microsoft office documents opens as read only in sharepoint 2010

Hi all,
We are facing strange issue with editing microsoft office documents in sharepoint. When we open the documents for editing it opens as read only and when we try to save the file it displays message as could not save the file the document is read
only..
Can anyone help to resolve this issue..

Hi Manjunath,
Did the
dialog of "How would you like to open this file:Read only/Edit" popup when click the Word document?
Please also check if it is related to Site collection Quota exceeding the allocated limit per this similar post,
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/29689/sharepoint-2010-opens-document-in-read-only-mode
Thanks
Daniel Yang
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