Prompted to save changes when no changes are made

Same applies to "Intelli," as in IntelliSense, the nuisance that replaces
your "misspellings" with the closest word in Word's limited lexicon.

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"Stan Brown" wrote in message
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in microsoft.public.word.newusers:
Smart Tags. See "WD2002: You Are Prompted to Save Changes When You Close
a
Document Even Though You Have Made No Changes"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=816473

Thanks!

(I'm beginning to think that the adjective "smart" in front of any
Microsoft feature was chosen because it sounds so much better than
"nuisance". :-)

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in microsoft.public.word.newusers:
Smart Tags. See "WD2002: You Are Prompted to Save Changes When You Close a
Document Even Though You Have Made No Changes"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=816473

And a second thanks. I searched at Microsoft's site for similar
message in Excel and found that it is the cell() references in my
worksheet that get "updated" whenever I open it, thus giving the
spurious "Save your changes?" prompt.

I can't do anythjing about it, but at least I know now why it's
happening.

--

Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/

FWIW, if I move the insertion point in an Excel sheet I'm prompted to save
it.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Stan Brown" wrote in message
...
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in microsoft.public.word.newusers:
Smart Tags. See "WD2002: You Are Prompted to Save Changes When You Close
a
Document Even Though You Have Made No Changes"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=816473

And a second thanks. I searched at Microsoft's site for similar
message in Excel and found that it is the cell() references in my
worksheet that get "updated" whenever I open it, thus giving the
spurious "Save your changes?" prompt.

I can't do anythjing about it, but at least I know now why it's
happening.

--

Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/

The really weird thing is that I feel like I've fixed this problem in the
past! Wish I knew how...


"Stan Brown" wrote in message
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: "Jeni Q" wrote in microsoft.public.word.newusers:
: I have a user who is complaining that in Word 2000 (and Excel 2000), he
is
: prompted with "Do you want to save the changes you made to 'File
Name.doc'?"
: every time he opens and closes a document.
:
: Isn't it aggravating? I get those "false positives" a lot too.
:
: Sometimes it's fields that auto-update, but sometimes it's not.
:
: (Excel does the same annoying thing, when I open my gradebook
: spreadsheet, look at it, and close it.)
:
: --
:
: Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
: http://OakRoadSystems.com/

Aha! The problem was the Office 2003 Flipped Pictures Add-In.
It checks a setting in every file that is opened, so it appears to be making
a change to the file even when you don't touch the document.

"Jeni Q" wrote in message
...
: Greetings. If this is not an appropriate place for this post please
redirect
: me - I couldn't find a more general kind of category.
:
: I have a user who is complaining that in Word 2000 (and Excel 2000), he is
: prompted with "Do you want to save the changes you made to 'File
Name.doc'?"
: every time he opens and closes a document. Typically, a user is only
: prompted with this message when changes have been made. In his case, he
: receives the prompt when no changes have been made. This appears to be
: happening with all documents, not just a select few. The Update Fields
when
: Printing selection is unchecked, and the problem is reproducible without
: printing the document. If the document is prompting to save changes
because
: of a field, what is activating the field when the user does absolutely
: nothing to the document?
:
: I have tried renaming all of his normal.dot tempaltes to normal.dot.old so
: that it would recreate the normal template, but this had no therapuetic
: effect.
:
: I would love some suggestions here. We're running Win2KPro SP4 with Office
: 2000SP3.
: Thanks in advance for your kind advice.
:
: Jennifer
:
:

Thanks for letting us know. It adds one more possible culprit to the (long)
list of Add-Ins.
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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Jeni Q" wrote in message
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Aha! The problem was the Office 2003 Flipped Pictures Add-In.
It checks a setting in every file that is opened, so it appears to be
making
a change to the file even when you don't touch the document.

"Jeni Q" wrote in message
...
: Greetings. If this is not an appropriate place for this post please
redirect
: me - I couldn't find a more general kind of category.
:
: I have a user who is complaining that in Word 2000 (and Excel 2000), he
is
: prompted with "Do you want to save the changes you made to 'File
Name.doc'?"
: every time he opens and closes a document. Typically, a user is only
: prompted with this message when changes have been made. In his case, he
: receives the prompt when no changes have been made. This appears to be
: happening with all documents, not just a select few. The Update Fields
when
: Printing selection is unchecked, and the problem is reproducible without
: printing the document. If the document is prompting to save changes
because
: of a field, what is activating the field when the user does absolutely
: nothing to the document?
:
: I have tried renaming all of his normal.dot tempaltes to normal.dot.old
so
: that it would recreate the normal template, but this had no therapuetic
: effect.
:
: I would love some suggestions here. We're running Win2KPro SP4 with
Office
: 2000SP3.
: Thanks in advance for your kind advice.
:
: Jennifer
:
: