Word is NOT read only!

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Thank you for your reply.

Does this mean #1 is only applicable to stored documents, so not relevant to this thread?

I only wanted to prevent Word documents from being edited internally as I suspect this will prevent them grabbing focus, but it is essential that they can viewed internally.

When I remove .doc from #2 and uncheck #3 as suggested, I see a link with the text "Click here to open linked document".

However, if I restore the tick to the box at #3, I see the "completely unformatted text" I mentioned before. This is not very helpful as my documents contain tables, fields and other objects that are difficult to interpret at best.

Is it possible to prevent linked MSWord documents from grabbing the focus when they are selected in the Data Explorer pane but still appear as they would in MSWord with all their native formatting?