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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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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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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2023-02-06T17:17:01+00:00

My understanding based on our environment is yes this allows only typing into the fillable form fields but if a user clicks Save it overwrites the original document with those fillable form field values. We therefore have to mark the document as Read-only which would fire a save as, instead now this new "feature" prevents typing all together including the fillable form fields.
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Anonymous

2023-02-08T21:05:37+00:00

Does not work, same issue for us.
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Anonymous

2023-02-15T15:49:31+00:00

We are also having this issue, the update seems to have completely broken the form fillable elements of Word when using a read only document. The only way around it appears to be making our users save the form to their PC. A thing we 100% totally and utterly don't want them to do.

0/10 for this update

It really seems Microsoft would rather have enterprise users purchase old licenses rather than subscribe to a service that breaks key functionality for a monthly fee.

Especially since this issue has been flagged by the community for several months now.
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