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?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-02-06T17:05:00+00:00

    We tried that and it unlocked the whole document making it editable to all.

    Well Jeez Cory, IDK. I have had success with "filling in forms" as the how to lock the form whether I was emailing the form to someone or if they simply accessed it off our network. don't know how to direct you as I have never had to trouble shoot that not working. Hmm... :-/

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-02-06T16:04:02+00:00

    The document itself is already unprotected. This is where ours is erroring out and we receive the OpenDataSource error.

    'This part merges opens the datasource in the primary document 

     'Documents("c:\Mergedocs\WordMerge\MergeTemplate.docm").Activate 

ActiveDocument.MailMerge.MainDocumentType = wdFormLetters 

ActiveDocument.MailMerge.OpenDataSource Name:="C:\MERGEDATA\" & Environ("USERNAME") & "\MASTERWP.txt", \_ 

    ConfirmConversions:=False, ReadOnly:=True, LinkToSource:=True, \_ 

    AddToRecentFiles:=False, PasswordDocument:="", PasswordTemplate:="", \_ 

    WritePasswordDocument:="", WritePasswordTemplate:="", Revert:=False, \_ 

    Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto, SubType:=wdMergeSubTypeOther

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-06T15:55:36+00:00

    Is the document unprotected? Here is the line after

    wddoc.unprotect password:=""

    Scott

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-06T15:51:17+00:00

    We tried that and it unlocked the whole document making it editable to all.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-02-06T15:46:25+00:00

    We tried setting read only to false on our but still having the same issues. Our process has been the same for the past 5 years and no issues until the recent word update. Our process references the templates and pushes the data into them. We ran it step by step and it looks like its having issues when trying to reference the template because its opening up in read only mode even though we set it to ReadOnly:=False.

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