Today suddenly the appearance of my Word documents is extremely simplified, and shows across the top only “File” “Tools” and “View.” See below. 

It didn’t look like this last night. Now I can open docs but not make any changes–it’s read-only. 

If I open a blank document, it has the usual appearance. I can copy-paste these locked-up texts into a new document and edit that.

I don’t know if that is relevant or not, but I’m also getting repeat messages from Avast, about it blocking a bad URL. I get this message with an annoying bleep every 5 minutes or so. 

BTW also in case it’s relevant, for years, when I close a doc it tells me that it is in compatibility mode and now will update to .docx,. But it already was in docx mode.

BTW also I am not a subscriber to Office 365. I bought Word 2019. I just checked for updates and it tells me that Microsoft 365 is updated…

Thanks for your help!!!

​Today suddenly the appearance of my Word documents is extremely simplified, and shows across the top only “File” “Tools” and “View.” See below.  It didn’t look like this last night. Now I can open docs but not make any changes–it’s read-only. If I open a blank document, it has the usual appearance. I can copy-paste these locked-up texts into a new document and edit that. I don’t know if that is relevant or not, but I’m also getting repeat messages from Avast, about it blocking a bad URL. I get this message with an annoying bleep every 5 minutes or so.  BTW also in case it’s relevant, for years, when I close a doc it tells me that it is in compatibility mode and now will update to .docx,. But it already was in docx mode. BTW also I am not a subscriber to Office 365. I bought Word 2019. I just checked for updates and it tells me that Microsoft 365 is updated… Thanks for your help!!!   Read More

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