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Editing a Word document using Teams

Why cant team members using a apple iPad edit a word document i have stored on Teams ? I am using the free version of Teams on my windows laptop, any advice ?

Thank you in advance

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@AaronPritchard-4652,

Could team members edit the word document in other clients?

When you open the document, please check if it shows as Viewing. If so, you can manually change it to Editing as below. Then, you could edit the file.
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In general, it will pop up the following message to indicate that this file always be opened as view-only to avoid accidental changes.
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