Policy overview

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ClassUser
CategoryMicrosoft Word 2016 > Word Options > Security
Supported onWindows7

This policy setting allows you turn off the file validation feature. If you enable this policy setting, file validation will be turned off. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, file validation will be turned on. Office Binary Documents (97-2003) are checked to see if they conform against the file format schema before they are opened.

Internal name
L_TurnOffFileValidation
Policy ID
9e41d2994509
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\security\filevalidation\enableonloadREG_DWORD
0
1

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