In Mac OS, you can lock a file in order to make it read-only and prevent it from being accidentally deleted. Lock a document to make it read-only Note: If your document is shared, anyone who has Write privileges can clear the read-only status. Tweak it by clicking on Ribbon Display Option and selecting Auto-hide Ribbon. Distraction free reading is a more specialized feature in Word 2013 and 2016, though, it was there in Word 2010, too. Designed for touch-enabled tablets, the Read Mode works well on an everyday laptop as well. Access it just as quickly with an ALT + W-F (Press W & F simultaneously). NOTE: The “Read Mode” is different than “read-only mode”. The “read-only mode” is a protected mode for documents that prevents changes from being made to a document in any layout for security purposes.
Every time when I open a Word attachment from Outlook, it opens in Word in Read Mode, a mode in Word that is basically for reading. Since I never ever need to use this mode in Word, I always switch over to Layout mode right away. Now, it’s gotten to a point where I am getting so annoyed that I want Layout Mode to be my default view mode when I open Word document from another applications like Outlook.
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The reason why it defaults to Reading mode is because the document is opened in Read-only mode. Because it’s an email attachment, Outlook saves a copy of the attachment in the temporary folder first before asking Word to open it with Read-only rights.
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To change the default viewing mode in Word 2013, go to File → Options, and in Word Option dialog, un-check option “Open e-mail attachments and other uneditable files in reading view” under General section and Start up options.
Click OK to save the change. And that’s it.
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This did not work. The document is still read only.