When I open word save as appears wont go away

[eric]

Actually its word and excel. When I open either application, and try to work
they both immediately pop up the "save as" window and I cannot get them to
close out. Thus I cannot work in either excel or word.

 

[Brod]

Reinstall?

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Brod

Actually its word and excel. When I open either application, and try to
work
they both immediately pop up the "save as" window and I cannot get them to
close out. Thus I cannot work in either excel or word.

 

[Beth Melton]

Both Word and Excel have an AutoSave add-ins and if they are loaded
you'll find AutoSave under the Tools menu in Excel and "Save Reminder
Options" under the File menu in Word.

But I suspect you have a macro attempting to Save the files instead.
Once you find the problem for Word it should be similar for Excel.

In Word take a look under Tools/Templates and Add-ins and see if there
are any global templates or add-ins listed. If so they are located in
one of your Startup folders. The location of the Word\Startup folder
can be found under Tools/Options/File Locations and the Office\Startup
folder can be found in the Office installation path..

Take a look in each folder and if you find more than one file move
them one at a time and try duplicating the error after each file is
moved out of the folder until you determine which one is causing the
problem.

As of Word 2000, Word can have COM add-ins. COM are added via the
Registry rather than the Startup folders. To determine whether or not
you are using COM Add-In you can add the "COM Add-in" command to your
toolbar:

- Right-click any toolbar and select Customize
- On the Commands tab, select the Tools category
- Locate COM Add-Ins on the right
- Drag/Drop to a location of your choice

For more information on using the COM Add-Ins utility, see this
article:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CheckIfAddinsInstalled.htm

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[Beth Melton]

Seldom does reinstalling resolve Word issues - especially when the
problem isn't caused by the installation.

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[Brod]

Wanna bet?

Brod
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

?

 

[Beth Melton]

Ummm....I don't contribute to this forum in order to challenge others.
I'm simply here to share what I've learned and learn from others.

So if you could share an example of where reinstalling Office resolved
a problem that wasn't related to the actual Office installation
(program files) I'd love to hear about it.

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MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/