Word, Read-Only mode

Franky 106 Reputation points
2022-10-05T08:19:55.18+00:00

hello all,

we use Word (Office 2021) and some users complain that word automatically switches to read-only mode when the pc goes into power save mode.

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  1. Olaf Helper 44,931 Reputation points
    2022-10-05T10:30:36.503+00:00

    Are the Word documents located on a network share/mounted storage drive?
    By default on Power Save the network gets disconnected, so the access on the document and then you can not longer edit the Word document, until you re-opened it.


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