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Office Online: Word and PowerPoint Documents open in Edit Mode
What I'm seeing is that Word and PowerPoint files, when clicked from a team site document library, open in browser (as configured) in Edit mode instead of Read. When these same files are clicked on f...
Word online documents opening in edit mode
It doesn’t look like MS are going to change it…
The behaviour that files opened in Word Online is directly in the edit mode is a behaviour in SharePoint Online by default now.
As a workaround, you can set Require documents to be checked out before they can be edited to Yes in Version settings in Library Settings. Meanwhile, I suggest you submit your feedback on our SharePoint UserVoice as it is the direct way for product developers to know users’ requirements.
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