diff --git a/packages/fields-document/src/DocumentEditor/editor-shared.ts b/packages/fields-document/src/DocumentEditor/editor-shared.ts
index bd3c6db59b3..66eee2a19af 100644
--- a/packages/fields-document/src/DocumentEditor/editor-shared.ts
+++ b/packages/fields-document/src/DocumentEditor/editor-shared.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import {
   createEditor,
 } from 'slate'
 import { withHistory } from 'slate-history'
-import { withReact } from 'slate-react'
+//  import { withReact } from 'slate-react'
 
 import { type ComponentBlock } from './component-blocks/api-shared'
 import { type DocumentFeatures } from '../views-shared'
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ export function createDocumentEditor (
                                     withDocumentFeaturesNormalization(
                                       documentFeatures,
                                       relationships,
-                                      withHistory(withReact(createEditor()))
+                                      withHistory(createEditor())
                                     )
                                   )
                                 )
diff --git a/packages/fields-document/src/DocumentEditor/utils.ts b/packages/fields-document/src/DocumentEditor/utils.ts
index 0e97bf7f54a..62c1923532e 100644
--- a/packages/fields-document/src/DocumentEditor/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/fields-document/src/DocumentEditor/utils.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import {
   Text,
   Transforms,
 } from 'slate'
-import { ReactEditor } from 'slate-react'
+//  import { ReactEditor } from 'slate-react'
 import { type ElementFromValidation } from '../structure-validation'
 
 export type Mark =
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ export function insertNodesButReplaceIfSelectionIsAtEmptyParagraphOrHeading (
     Transforms.removeNodes(editor, { at: path })
     // even though the selection is in the right place after the removeNodes
     // for some reason the editor blurs so we need to focus it again
-    ReactEditor.focus(editor)
+//      ReactEditor.focus(editor)
   }
 }