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Iron Contributor

Oct 08, 2020

Solved

Comment on files without edit permission

I just learned about a relatively recent Google Drive feature where files can be shared with others with only permission to comment: https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/new-ways-comment-microsoft...

office 365

OneDrive for Business

VasilMichev
Oct 09, 2020
This is enabled by default when you share the file with view-only permissions - opening it in the web apps allows the use of "Review" mode, which gives you a commenting permissions and nothing else.

Mike Williams

Iron Contributor

Oct 08, 2020

bynum I did a web search on "share docs for commenting only" and found a number of ideas, including https://wordribbon.tips.net/T006044_Allowing_Only_Comments_In_a_Document.html and https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_win10-mso_365hp/comments-in-get-a-share-link-preview-only-in-word/ef935575-c709-42b0-a9ce-ab4a10a8b3e7

Note that because of the versioning capability of OneDrive, I am quite happy to share docs with full edit capability as 1) I can always retrieve a pre-edited version, and 2) the person(s) who made the edits are tracked in the version history.

There are probably also mechanisms for sharing docs via SharePoint and tracking comments in SharePoint external to the document.