Resolving conflicts

The conflict resolution feature in Microsoft Advertising Editor helps you quickly resolve inconsistencies that result from someone else uploading or making online changes to the same campaign that you are working on.

Conflicts can result from someone else uploading or making online changes to the campaign you’re changing at the same time in Microsoft Advertising Editor. When you sync with Microsoft Advertising, we’ll alert you immediately if we detect any conflicts. You can then decide which version of the data to keep and resolve any conflicts before you post back to Microsoft Advertising.

Set default conflict resolution

For Windows:

From the menu bar, select Tools > Options > Defaults.
Choose from the list of conflict resolution settings in the drop-down menu below User settings.
Select OK.

For Mac:

From the menu bar, select Tools > Preferences > Defaults.
Choose from the list of conflict resolution settings in the drop-down menu below User settings.
Select OK.

Resolve all conflicts

In the data view, select the drop-down menu.
Select either Use data from Microsoft Advertising Editor or Use data from Microsoft Advertising.
Select Done.
Please note that while this option will resolve all conflicts in the data view, you can still make additional changes in the grid.

Use data from Microsoft Advertising Editor

You don’t need to do anything. The changes you made in Microsoft Advertising Editor will be applied after you select Done > Post.

Use data from Microsoft Advertising

In the data view, choose a cell with a conflict.
Select the change you made in Microsoft Advertising.
Select Done.