I have installed Office Web Apps on a SharePoint 2010 farm and it works fine. However, when I have a Word document open in the browser and click "Open in Word" the Word Viewer control redirects the browser back to the document library. Can I somehow configure it to stop doing that? I want it to stay on the same page.

/Andreas

Hi Andreas,

I think it was by design so that you only had the document open with one set of features. If you open a document in the Word desktop application, and introduce content or functionality to the document that will prevent other authors ability to edit the document in Word Web App.

For example, dont use permissions features such as editing restrictions or marking the document as final. If you want to restrict access to the document, use the permission features where the document is stored (SkyDrive, Office 365, or SharePoint).

Also, If another author saves the document with unsupported features before you have saved the document in Word Web App, you might not be able to save your work in Word Web App. If you have Word 2010, Word 2013, or Word for Mac 2011 you can prevent losing your changes by opening the document in the Word desktop application. Click Open in Word, copy your changes from Word Web App, and then paste them in the document in Word. When you save the document in Word, your changes are saved on the server.

That said I will send an email out to our DL to see if there is a relatively painless way to modify the behavior.

-Ivan

I just posted this same question about Office Web Apps server and Word Web App working within a SharePoint 2013 farm.  Were you ever able to get an answer for this?