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.
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My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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Andy Fish wrote:
[Quoted Text] > 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
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