This policy setting determines if changes made to a server document should be automatically merged with the locally-cached copy of the document on the next save. This policy pertains to the co-authoring experience in Word.
If you enable this policy setting, then changes made to a server document will not be automatically merged with the locally-cached copy of the document on the next save.
If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, then changes made to a server document will be automatically merged with the locally-cached copy of the document on the next save.
| Registry Hive | HKEY_CURRENT_USER |
| Registry Path | software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\coauthoring |
| Value Name | disableautomerge |
| Value Type | REG_DWORD |
| Enabled Value | 1 |
| Disabled Value | 0 |