It appears there is somewhat a feature that can do this (sort of) however it doesn’t work how I’d ideally like it to work so I’m wondering if anyone has any suggestions how I can achieve this.. please see the screenshot.
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[https://imgur.com/a/cT69N3m](https://imgur.com/a/cT69N3m)
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So it appears I can block the download but only if I disable the ability to edit, Ideally I’d like to block the download but allow editing only in office online. This might not be at all possible but hoping to bounce some ideas around. Ideally I’d like to have this done automatically when a user shares a document externally instead of relying on them to apply these settings but not sure if that is asking too much.
Look into conditional access.