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Andy Fish Andy Fish is offline
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Default saving after laptop suspend

Hi,

Here's a scenario that happens to me several times a week. I was wondering
if anyone has a solution.

I am editing a document on a network share. I suspend and resume the laptop.
When I resume, word detects that the network has gone away (possibly because
it takes a while for the wi-fi to reconnect). sometimes I get a spurious
error that the document has changed on the server.

Either way I end up with the situation that the document I am editing is now
read-only and I have to 'save as' rather than save. However, I can't use
save as to overwrite the original document, or go on to the server and
delete the original because I still have it locked for editing.

At this point I have to either save a local copy, then close and and upload
it onto the server, or save it with a new name on the server then close,
rename, and re-open.

Both of these are a hassle to do, they both pollute my 'recent documents'
list with the wrong copy of the document and they are both open to me
accidentally deleting or renaming the wrong file.

I don't see any reason why word couldn't allow me to overwrite the existing
saved document with my current one. Is there any way to achieve this ?

Andy