Thread: outlook word attachments only opening in read only compataibility mode
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Old 04-13-2015, 12:06 PM
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All documents created in versions older than Word 2013 will be displayed in Compatibility mode in Word 2013. Maybe some of your colleagues are using Save As to create new documents based on old ones? That could explain why they are in Compatibility mode.

Note that read-only is the default for e-mail attachments so that you are forced to Save As before saving (or trying to save) changes to them.
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