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SPO Overwriting in a library .doc with .docx doesn't work
Hi, I got following remark: I have a word document with .doc extension. When uploading in that same library a word document with exact the same name but different extension .docx it will not ove...
- I don't know, but I can't barely imagine that there is a technical solution. The versions are file dependent, if you save *.doc as *.docx Word is creating a new file (of different type&format) with it's own version history.
The only way to keep the versions is the further use of *.doc.
I would suggest an organizational solution using power automate (move *.doc to a backup directory and keep it until a defined date)
Can I ask, has anyone found a solution yet to overwriting .doc word documents in SPO with a newer version .docx so it does not duplicate, as in the newer document it then loses version history. We can move the .doc document to another directory, but it is not ideal when you want to see all the version history in one place.