[Andy Fish]

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

[Graham Mayor]

It won't allow you to save with the same name as the original document lock
file is still present. See
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm
If you are going to suspend your laptop, save and close any open documents
before doing so to avoid this issue.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Andy Fish wrote:
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