Modes

A document opens read-only, for commenting only, or for editing; the mode prop (Props) chooses which.

Read-only

No edits and no comments, and therefore no toolbar and no context menus. The text can be selected and copied, and the document's comments can be read.

Comment-only

Comments can be added, edited, deleted, replied to, resolved, and reopened; the body and its notes cannot be changed. There is no toolbar, and the right-click menu offers Copy and Add comment only. Undo and redo take back a comment, never a body edit.

Editing

Every edit and every comment, with the built-in toolbar unless toolbar: false leaves it out. The right-click menu adds Cut, Paste, Delete, Insert footnote, and Insert endnote, and with locking: true also Lock and Unlock. Zoom, page guides, and the comment panel are available in every mode.

Switching modes

The mode, the comment author, and who may edit comments can change on an open document; the editor switches in place and keeps the view and its history. Nothing about the mode is written to the saved file.

Your comments and other people's

Every comment records its author, and Edit and Delete are offered on your own comments and on comments with no recorded author, such as ones written in Word. editableComments: "all" opens every comment to everyone. Replying, resolving, and reopening are open to every commenter. Who may edit a comment states the rule precisely.

Locked content

Locked text cannot be edited in any mode, and no prop turns a lock off. A lock travels with the file as a content control, and is drawn in yellow with an outline. Typing or deleting there leaves the document as it was; the right-click menu says the content is locked, and an application can show its own notice through onEditRefused. Locking and unlocking are offered from the right-click menu while editing with locking: true.

Modes and locks in the Editor API covers how a control of your own reads the mode.