Whenever I open a word document from somewhere else, word starts to apply some formatting. I get hundreds of changes like these: I have disabled as much of the auto format stuff as I can: All to no avail. Can I somehow make Word just open the document and leave it alone otherwise? Particularly with cloud documents that get saved automatically, those document modifications are very very annoying.

How can I stop Word from messing up my documents while opening them?

Hetzer, Volker 5

Whenever I open a word document from somewhere else, word starts to apply some formatting. I get hundreds of changes like these:

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I have disabled as much of the auto format stuff as I can:

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All to no avail. Can I somehow make Word just open the document and leave it alone otherwise?

Particularly with cloud documents that get saved automatically, those document modifications are very very annoying.

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