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Microsoft Office coauthoring conflict errors

Documents coauthoring conflict states where local data is safe but cannot resume coauthoring until users resolve errors, save a copy, discard, refresh, review recovered conflicts, and accept or reject conflicting changes.

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Conflict resolution Choose conflict resolution when users need a workflow for deciding, merging, skipping, or committing one or more conflicts after they have been detected. The resolver opens from a known conflict and keeps users oriented to the affected object, conflict number, and total unresolved count. Microsoft Office supports save-copy and discard recovery, conflict view navigation, and accept or reject decisions for recovered changes.
Conflict state Choose conflict state when two or more valid versions overlap and a choice, merge, save-copy, discard, or policy resolution is required. Conflict detection stops silent overwrite and keeps every competing value recoverable. Microsoft Office supports local-safe conflict errors, save-copy and discard recovery, conflict view navigation, and accept or reject choices.
Merge conflict resolver Choose merge conflict resolver for source-control branch conflicts with files, hunks, target/source branch labels, conflict markers, and a resolution commit. The resolver opens from a known merge conflict and keeps branch pair, file path, hunk number, and total unresolved count visible. Microsoft Office conflict review provides adjacent evidence for preserving data, navigating conflicts, and accepting or rejecting conflicting changes.

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