How to turn off the reviewing, editing, and view feature?

Anonymous
2022-09-01T19:39:16+00:00

Since the reviewing, editing, and viewing feature I cannot copy and paste from a read only document. I have to gain access to even copy and paste. My job requires me to copy and paste from upwards of 10 documents. Since word won't let me copy and paste from a read-only or viewing document I have to check them out of our SVN every time. Does anyone know how to turn this feature off and go back to the original word?

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | Other | Windows

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-12-28T23:53:07+00:00

    We are being forced to ask clients to roll back Office while we build an urgent bug fix release. The least MS could do give us some indication of where they are going with this. But silence. Give us a work-around Microsoft!

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  2. Stefan Blom 352.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2022-12-28T20:43:06+00:00

    As noted earlier in this thread, Microsoft has been made aware of this. What happens next is up to Microsoft.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-12-28T16:05:26+00:00

    Agree and this has been ongoing for a while. Is there something that we can track or submit to Microsoft to get this fixed or at least give us a workaround?

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-12-28T15:57:29+00:00

    Right!?! is there just no way to fix this problem?

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-12-13T16:38:03+00:00

    Checking to see if anyone has a workaround or has heard of an update from Microsoft? My program has a function to generate word documents that is not functional with this new "feature". Our only option has been to roll back the update and change the update channel. At some point it will start hitting all of my customers. Thanks

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