closing an (un)changed document

[Ellis Morgan]

Can anyone explain what is going on here?

I have a document which I open and then immediately close and word then
asks if I want to save my changes.

I am using word 2002 (10.6866.6867) SP3 running on windows XP.
I have narrowed it down to a single line with these characters "West
Meon, 1HW." ended by new paragraph are enough to cause this. If I then
remove either the first or last character and {file > save as} with a
different name the resulting document can be opened and closed without
word thinking I have changed it.

This happens with both "Arial" and "Courier New" as the font and with
font sizes 10 and 12.

 

[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

 

[Ellis Morgan]

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

Many thanks, that did the trick. I wish a had been able to find it for
myself but even knowing what I was looking for I was unable to get this
article anywhere near the top of the results when searching in Microsoft
support.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Were you searching within MS (using Bing) or with Google? The latter is
usually superior. As it happens, this is a frequently asked question, and
the link is in my list of frequently referenced KB articles.

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

 

[Ellis Morgan]

Were you searching within MS (using Bing) or with Google? The latter is
usually superior. As it happens, this is a frequently asked question,
and the link is in my list of frequently referenced KB articles.

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


article anywhere near the top of the results when searching in Microsoft > support.

Thanks again. I was doing it inside MS support, googling is better. I
tried "ms word 2002 unchanged save prompt" which got me there in the
end but nor very directly. The only selection I found that went straight
there included your name!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yes, I've probably posted that link a hundred times.

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