Why "Save changes" asked?

[Norm]

For no apparent reasons, I'm getting many "do you want to save the
changes you made" when I just open and close a document.

Been happening mainly in my MS Word vX docs but today I received an
Excel doc attached to an email, opened it and then closed it and there
was this dialog again asking if I wanted to save the changes. I hadn't
done anything other than open the document.

How would I find out what is happening? It has become confusing because
I no longer know when I've made or not made changes to docs.

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Often this is caused by a sloppily written add-in, but there was an office x
bug doing it, though I thought it had been fixed....

What exact version of Office X do you have?
http://mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/vxversions.html

Do you have any add-ins (e.g. Acrobat) running?
Look in your Startup folders, or under Tools | Add-ins in Excel, Tools |
Templates and Add-ins in Word.

DM

 

[Norm]

Often this is caused by a sloppily written add-in, but there was an office x
bug doing it, though I thought it had been fixed....

What exact version of Office X do you have?
http://mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/vxversions.html

OP responding. Thanks for your willingness to help.

Office Version 10.1.0

Do you have any add-ins (e.g. Acrobat) running?
Look in your Startup folders, or under Tools | Add-ins in Excel, Tools |
Templates and Add-ins in Word.

In Startup Items, there are Retrospect and NUDC (Now Up To Date) folders.

In Office:Startup, there are folders for Excel, PowerPoint and Word but
they are all empty.

I didn't find any folder "Add-Ins" in Tools.

I did find one in Office:Add-Ins and that folder included:
Camera & Scanner Plug-in
Conditional Sum Wizard
EuroConvert Library
Eurotool.xla
SaveAsMovie Wizard

Hope that answers the questions.

Thanks again.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Often this is caused by a sloppily written add-in, but there was an office x

OP responding. Thanks for your willingness to help.

Office Version 10.1.0

Okay....I vaguely seem to remember that this was a bug fixed in an early
update, Office X is at version 10.1.6--there is a combined 10.1.6 updater at
mactopia.com (but I think heavy PowerPoint users are unhappy with it), or
apparently there may still be the separate updaters of 10.1.2, 10.1.4, and
10.1.5 floating around on the web. You should update. Run Disk Permissions
before and after, for good maintenance.

In Startup Items, there are Retrospect and NUDC (Now Up To Date) folders.

OS startup items should not make a difference, sorry, wrote carelessly.

In Office:Startup, there are folders for Excel, PowerPoint and Word but
they are all empty.

Those are the folders I meant (apps/office/office/startup)--any templates in
your office startup folders are installed add-ins.

I didn't find any folder "Add-Ins" in Tools.

Sorry, not a folder--both of those were menu commands--any add-ins listed
*and checked* in those dialogs are installed, even if not in your office
startup folders.

I did find one in Office:Add-Ins and that folder included:

Stuff here is not necessarily installed, just available for you to install.

But all that re add-ins is just FYI, as I think the constant save changes is
the bug caused by the lack of updating. It's easier to test your add-ins
that to update, though, so you could do that first.

DM

 

[Norm]

OP responding. Thanks for your willingness to help.

Office Version 10.1.0

Okay....I vaguely seem to remember that this was a bug fixed in an early
update, Office X is at version 10.1.6--there is a combined 10.1.6 updater at
mactopia.com (but I think heavy PowerPoint users are unhappy with it), or
apparently there may still be the separate updaters of 10.1.2, 10.1.4, and
10.1.5 floating around on the web. You should update. Run Disk Permissions
before and after, for good maintenance.

In Startup Items, there are Retrospect and NUDC (Now Up To Date) folders.

OS startup items should not make a difference, sorry, wrote carelessly.

In Office:Startup, there are folders for Excel, PowerPoint and Word but
they are all empty.

Those are the folders I meant (apps/office/office/startup)--any templates in
your office startup folders are installed add-ins.

I didn't find any folder "Add-Ins" in Tools.

Sorry, not a folder--both of those were menu commands--any add-ins listed
*and checked* in those dialogs are installed, even if not in your office
startup folders.

I did find one in Office:Add-Ins and that folder included:

Stuff here is not necessarily installed, just available for you to install.

But all that re add-ins is just FYI, as I think the constant save changes is
the bug caused by the lack of updating. It's easier to test your add-ins
that to update, though, so you could do that first.

DM[/QUOTE]

Thanks very much for the help. I appreciate.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Office X is at version 10.1.6--there is a combined 10.1.6 updater at
mactopia.com (but I think heavy PowerPoint users are unhappy with it

I don't think so. I believe that there are a few little things in PowerPoint
2004 that go wrong - not 10.1.6. I might be wrong though - JE?


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[Daiya Mitchell]

Thanks very much for the help. I appreciate.

Glad to help.
DM