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Easily switch between editing, reviewing, and viewing documents in Word
Kimberley Chua, Product Manager on the Word team is excited to share that they've made it even easier to switch between editing, reviewing, and viewing your documents in Word for Windows.
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Is it by design that when in "Viewing" mode, you are not able to open embedded documents? This isn't a problem if the document resides on your computer, as you can easily switch to "Editing" mode and can then open the embedded document. However, this is a problem when the document resides on a SharePoint site where you have read-only permissions - opening the document from this type of location with this type of access opens the file in "Viewing" mode and you cannot switch between the other modes. Before this feature rolled out, you were able to open embedded documents from a document residing on a SharePoint site with read-only permissions.