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Mike_M518
Oct 23, 2019Copper Contributor
Office 365 MS Word Opens old versions from SharePoint
situation: We have a SharePoint 2016 installment, our servers are off site but we control them. We edit our documents using SP16. I was recently upgraded to Office 365 and ever since, when I navigate...
AccotinkCaptain
Oct 23, 2019Brass Contributor
Are you opening the document and trying to edit in the browser?
I found that I had to download the document, make changes and save as a type .docx document. Then re upload the document to SP and than it should work (allow you to edit the document normally in the browser).
I think this is all happening because the original document was uploaded in a old Word format.