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
    2023-02-23T11:29:51+00:00

    Thank you. So far if we save in a new folder, we are able to use the form. We shall see how long this will work. We are working on something different this morning. I will let you know how it goes.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-02-23T14:12:26+00:00

    We opened a ticket with Microsoft as well and they closed it out pretty quickly with the same update that they aren't going to do anything about the feature and its here to stay. The only response they gave me was to "submit feedback" in the 365 admin portal. It's pretty clear this feature is causing multiple problems for different companies. I agree they should push out an update to fix this.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-11T06:29:18+00:00

    this issue has been around since the update and still, MS is not able to address this. more Office users are annoyed by this pop up message and the feature itself.

    hope this would have a fix soonest.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-04-12T13:04:27+00:00

    Not sure if it will be any help at all but we do have a meeting with our account advisor this week. I doubt anything will come of it but we are still actively trying to make sure Microsoft knows this is still causing issues.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-04-12T13:27:58+00:00

    Please let me know how this goes. It's been a nightmare here! Good luck!

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