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Originally Posted by chiraldude
Why would you say Office can't do anything about?
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Because the situation is under the control of you network software, not Word. Plain and simple.
Quite obviously, if you take the laptop to "a location with no access to corporate network", it can't be saved via an ordinary Save. In that sense it's 'read-only' and any save while not connected would have to be done via Save As. Now, how do you suppose your network would know it's the
same file when you later reconnect to your network and not another with the same name (regardless of whether you've edited and/or saved in the meantime)? It appears your network guards against accidental overwriting by maintaining the 'Save As' requirement. If saving with a different name is happening, that too is because of the way your network works. A smarter network might store a token on the laptop to enable it to confirm whether the file you have open is the same one that was open when the connection was lost, but that's apparently not how your network works.