Can you stop a user from opening a record while still giving them view/modify permissions?

I would like my users to be able to view a report that contains a few formula URL buttons. They will click the buttons to update a status field. 

These users don't have any reason to view the records in a form view so I want to block that from happening. 

If a user clicks slightly outside the formula URL button area, it opens the record in form view, confusing users and encouraging even more reckless "clicking around."

This is likely a training issue, but I thought this might just be a simple configuration I don;t know about.