Policy

Open Office documents as read/write while browsing

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Open Office documents as read/write while browsing
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Microsoft Office 2016 > Tools | Options | General | Web Options... > Files
Supported on
Windows7

This policy setting controls whether users can edit and save Office 2016 documents on Web servers that they have opened using Internet Explorer. If enable this policy setting, when users browse to an Office 2016 document on a Web server using Internet Explorer the appropriate application opens the file in read/write mode. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, when users browse to an Office 2016 document on a Web server using Internet Explorer, the appropriate application opens the file in read-only mode.

Internal name
L_OpenOfficedocumentsasreadwritewhilebrowsing
Policy ID
0b6cb96f95c9
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\internet
Value name
opendocumentsreadwritewhilebrowsing
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\internet
Value name
opendocumentsreadwritewhilebrowsing
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.