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A colleague and I have received a Word Document by email in docx format.

Both my colleague and I are running Word 2013 32-bit on Windows 7.

My colleague is able to open the document and interact with the form controls. If I expand his Properties Windows dropdown, I see controls like:

  • DefaultOcxName HTMLText
  • DefaultOcxName1 HTMLOption
  • DefaultOcxName2 HTMLSelect
  • ThisDocument Document

When I open the document on my PC, the controls are all "pictures" and can't be interacted with as Form controls, rendering the Form unusable. The Properties Window shows only a single entry in its dropdown:

  • ThisDocument Document

Is this a configuration/compatibility setting, or is there some component that my colleague has, that I don't, that allows him to open the file and use the form?

I have tried deleting the form control caches as per this answer, but it doesn't help.

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