Do you want to save changes to .....

[Jeff]

After I open a Word document sent to me as an email attachment, when I
close it Word asks me "Do you want to save changes to {name of
document]" even though I've made no changes to the document and I
op0ened the document in the same version of Word.

Why does it do that? What changes?

Thanks.

Jeff

 

[Heather Mills]

After I open a Word document sent to me as an email attachment, when I
close it Word asks me "Do you want to save changes to {name of
document]" even though I've made no changes to the document and I
op0ened the document in the same version of Word.

Why does it do that? What changes?

If the document has any fields, like date or time, that are set to
update, they can get updated, which changes the document.

I always just say no.

 

[Jeff]

After I open a Word document sent to me as an email attachment, when I
close it Word asks me "Do you want to save changes to {name of
document]" even though I've made no changes to the document and I
op0ened the document in the same version of Word.

Why does it do that? What changes?

If the document has any fields, like date or time, that are set to
update, they can get updated, which changes the document.

I always just say no.

I also say no but wondered. Thanks.

 

[Heather Mills]

After I open a Word document sent to me as an email attachment, when I
close it Word asks me "Do you want to save changes to {name of
document]" even though I've made no changes to the document and I
op0ened the document in the same version of Word.

Why does it do that? What changes?

If the document has any fields, like date or time, that are set to
update, they can get updated, which changes the document.

I always just say no.

I also say no but wondered. Thanks.

I agree. It is error prone. Sometimes I open a document and then get
distracted by something. When I come back, I can't remember if I
changed it or not, so am reluctant to say no and lose something I
wanted.

I believe there is a setting that will only uopdate those fields on
exit, but I'm not sure what it is and I've never been able to get to
to work reliably or as expected -- par for the course for Word.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See "WD2002: You Are Prompted to Save Changes When You Close a Document Even
Though You Have Made No Changes" at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=816473

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Dave Symes]

See "WD2002: You Are Prompted to Save Changes When You Close a Document
Even Though You Have Made No Changes" at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=816473

Thanks for that tip, I've been wanting to sort that for years.

Thanks
Dave