Disable File Save Prompt

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Jeff

I have a document that I use in an automated process with
another program, which acts as a template for a report
the program generates. However template document is only
needed when printing the report. When I go to run the
report the word document is opened and populated with the
data and works fine. However when the document is closed
after printing the report our users are prompted to save
the document. Every so often someone does, which
overwrites the document and that prevents anyone else
from working with it. Is there anyway to disable Word
from prompting to save a document on exit?
 
Go to Tools > Options > Save (tab), uncheck "prompt to save Normal
Template".

Andre Da Costa
Jamaica W.I.
 
Well, that only removes the prompt, but Normal will still be changed, you
just won't know it (and this is a bad thing). And the original poster isn't
asking about Normal anyhow.

Jeff, this is not my field, but I suspect if the automated process called a
proper template instead of a doc, it wouldn't matter if someone saved it.
That is, one can pretend a doc is a template by opening it up, doing a save
as and making changes, OR one can use a real template, where the File | Open
process does not open the actual template, but creates a new doc based on
that template. Then if that doc were saved, it wouldn't overwrite anything.
And people would remember to hit Cancel when faced with the need to enter a
name for the doc.

But someone else will probably come along telling you how to use a macro to
bypass the save on closing.

DM
 
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