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We tried that and it unlocked the whole document making it editable to all.
How to turn off the reviewing, editing, and view feature?
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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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Anonymous
2023-02-06T15:51:17+00:00 -
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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Anonymous
2023-02-06T15:07:40+00:00 If you lock the document with permissions set to "filling in forms" only the grey fillable sections should be editable. Try it out and let me know.
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Anonymous
2023-02-06T14:35:32+00:00 I'm not sure if it will help anyone else but I figured out how my system was doing this. I changed True to false below.
Set wddoc = wdapp.Documents.Open(FileName:="c:\templates\contracts\Agreement.docx", ReadOnly:=False)
My process has been this was for 10+ years with no issue populating the bookmarks. I'm guessing it is a security update that changed how it processes.
Like I said probably just my condition but wanted to put it out there.
Scott
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Anonymous
2023-02-04T22:39:59+00:00 This is ridiculous and Microsoft needs to do something about it ASAP. We are not able to revert to an older build for compliance reasons and must stay up to date. Microsoft can you give us an update when we will be able to turn this feature off. Our entire company relies on a visiual basic script that this new feature broke.