A lot of time is wasted by people making changes, edits, etc., to a document
only to discover, at the END of this process, that they're working in a
read-only file. The read-only status of a document should be apparent from
the start, to avoid wasting the user's time and effort, and the current
(read-only) comment in the title bar isn't sufficient.

In the tradition of error Prevention being better than Recovery, I suggest
that Office apps automatically DISABLE all but a few functions when a
read-only document is open: scroll, print, and Save As should be all that's
available. Only when you've saved the document with a new name (or turned off
read-only protection) would you be able to make and save changes, edit,
re-format, and so on.

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