Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassUser
CategoryMicrosoft Word 2016 > Collaboration Settings > Co-authoring
Supported onWindows7

This policy setting determines if changes made to a server document should be automatically merged with the locally-cached copy of the document on the next save. This policy pertains to the co-authoring experience in Word. If you enable this policy setting, then changes made to a server document will not be automatically merged with the locally-cached copy of the document on the next save. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, then changes made to a server document will be automatically merged with the locally-cached copy of the document on the next save.

Internal name
L_DoNotAutomaticallyMergeServerAndLocalDocument
Policy ID
b636971233f0
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\coauthoring\disableautomergeREG_DWORD
1
0

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