Permissions issue with Word documents & Server?

My workgroup is running into an error with OS X Server on a Mavericks Mac mini & Word.
Word Documents stored in the shared folder accessible by the 5 workgroup computers keep saying they're read-only and can't be saved.
We check over and over, and the documents aren't opened on any other computers.
Any ideas why this is happening?  We keep eating up more storage space because we need to duplicate and version all our documents.
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Hi JC,
I've seen this issue before even with Tiger Server 10.4, it is a problem with Microsoft Word and Office, which uses a "safe" place on the servershare .TemporaryItems where it stores the file based on the user local ID which usually is 501 or 502 when a local administrator is present.
You can find more info and some solutions here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16250977#16250977
The issue is explained here and still very much alive:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA23804?viewlocale=en_US
And the solution presented here:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/cantsavetoserver.html
This will take some work to change local user ids or just create 2,3,4,5 or 6 new local accounts and transfer their data if necessary that will change their UserID's as well.
Goodluck!
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