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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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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!
As noted earlier in this thread, Microsoft has been made aware of this. What happens next is up to Microsoft.
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?
Right!?! is there just no way to fix this problem?
Thanks Suzanne - that's some positive news.
I had two support calls logged with Microsoft detailing two different issues with this feature which they have literally just closed on me saying I can't log developer issues that way and to use the forums instead. And that's even after doing a remote session with their support people to show them the issue, and they ponder what I've shown them for almost a week and then just close the calls. It's so hard to get an issue escalated.
I have also found that using Documents.Add using a document that is read only will also fail if this feature is enabled - Word returns a runtime error 5097. This also occurs for some files in directories with limited access (like the default workgroup templates location) Move the files to another location and they work. It's breaking simple VBA code I've had running for over 20 years.
And it's also frustrating that this feature is only on for some users - there is no consistency at all. I've tried asking for a non-developer solution of being able to turn it off. That would be fine as a workaround for now.