This is a Word template design issue, not a Power Automate limitation. The content controls in your Word template have their Locking properties set incorrectly.
Fix in the Word template:
1. Open the template in Word with Developer tab enabled
2. Select each content control
3. Click Properties (Developer tab)
4. In the Locking section, uncheck both:
- Content control cannot be deleted
- Contents cannot be edited
5. Save the template
This is the cause of the read-only behavior. When Power Automate populates the control, it inherits whatever locking was set on the control in the template. If "Contents cannot be edited" was checked, the populated document has that lock enforced.
For the recommended approach to generate fully editable documents: after populating, the content controls remain as controls in the output.
If you want plain editable text with no content control wrapper at all, the only supported path in Power Automate is to convert the document via a post-processing step. A common approach is to use an Office Script after generation to programmatically remove content controls while preserving the text, then save the cleaned document. There is no Power Automate action that strips content controls natively.
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