Strange log file and save unchanged?

[Joe Spanehl]

Two issues:
1. Every now and then I get strange NLPGERMAN.LOG files in the same
folder I save a document to. Seems to contain some sort of edit history
of the document. (And, yes, I'm using a german edition of Word v.X
Can this be avoided?
2. Word v.X also tends to ask me if I want to save an unchanged
document, which annoys me quite a lot. Can't really find a pattern here,
but it seems especially printing an unchanged document seems to update
something, which makes Word think it has to save the document? Didn't
have this problem in 98 though.
Cheers
Joe

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi Joe:

This responds to microsoft.public.mac.office.word on Thu, 17 Jul 2003

Two issues:
1. Every now and then I get strange NLPGERMAN.LOG files in the same
folder I save a document to. Seems to contain some sort of edit history
of the document. (And, yes, I'm using a german edition of Word v.X
Can this be avoided?

Probably not. I don't know what that file is.

2. Word v.X also tends to ask me if I want to save an unchanged
document, which annoys me quite a lot. Can't really find a pattern here,
but it seems especially printing an unchanged document seems to update
something, which makes Word think it has to save the document? Didn't
have this problem in 98 though.

Yes. Printing a document updates the pagination, page numbers, Table of
Contents, headers and footers, and any other fields in the document. That
changes the information in the file, and Word will prompt you to save.
Documents that have no dynamic content (e.g. no page numbers) will not be
changed when you print.

If you want to save the document in the exact state it printed, say "Yes".
If you are sure you do not want to store any changes, don't save.

Hope this helps
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