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Hubshare cannot open .doc document for editing

Last updated on 12 November 2025

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Overview

The user encounters error when trying to open a “.doc” document in Word Online with editing rights. For example, like this.

Document opened (Open in Browser):

Document is checked out:

And after that error will appear:

Solution

The .doc format is not supported in the Hubshare when opening the document for editing and the extension.docx is required to get the file edited. User needs to convert the .doc document to the .docx format and there are guides on the Web on how the conversion is done. 

Here is the link to the Microsoft Support page how to convert .doc to .docx ->  Saving doc to docx or dorm - Microsoft Support

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