Allow co-authors to chat within a document
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Microsoft Office 2016 > Collaboration Settings
Supported on
Windows 10

Supported OS tags: Windows10

This policy setting controls whether co-authors can use the chat functionality within an Office application to collaborate with each other when editing a document. If you enable or don’t configure this policy setting, users can chat with each other when co-authoring a document. If you disable this policy setting, users can’t chat with each other when co-authoring a document. Note: This policy setting only applies to subscription versions of Office, such as Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise.

Internal name
L_DocumentChat
Policy ID
8039a7c22443
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common
Value name
disabledocumentchat
REG_DWORD
HKCU
0
HKCU
1
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common
Value name
disabledocumentchat
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
0
Disabled value
1

Policy elements

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