Help! A word feature is trying to drive me insane!

[Guest]

Hello, one of words features it trying to send me to the nut house so I
better try to do something about it. I use my word 2003 a lot. Every single
dratful time I open one of my word documents and try to close it again it
asks me if I want to save my changes. Even when I have made NONE! It asks me
every time! What good is it having the save feature if it insists on asking
you? Is there a way I can turn this annoying feature off? Let me know please,
I hope you know the answer you will save me from this neverending torture.
Rianna at (e-mail address removed)

 

[Anne Troy]

Rianna: this occurs if you have used, for instance, an updateable date
field. Did you hit Insert Date and tell it to automatically update? Other
fields could want to update, too, so what it's *really* asking is whether
you want to save the updated value of the field.

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[Greg Maxey]

Rianna,

I had a similiar problem a few years back when I upgraged to Word2002. It
would happend when I opened documents created in an earlier version. The
culprit was Tools>Options>Save>Embed Smart tags.

If that option was checked, I would get the promt everytime.

You can set that option to off in a batch of files by running this macro:

Public Sub BatchToggleEmbedSmartTabs()

'Sets embeded SmartTag off in all files in a directory
Dim myFile As String
Dim PathToUse As String
Dim myDoc As Document
'Close any documents that may be open
If Documents.Count > 0 Then
Documents.Close SaveChanges:=wdPromptToSaveChanges
End If
'Get the folder containing the files
With Dialogs(wdDialogCopyFile)
If .Display <> 0 Then
PathToUse = .Directory
Else
MsgBox "Cancelled by User"
Exit Sub
End If
End With

If Left(PathToUse, 1) = Chr(34) Then
PathToUse = Mid(PathToUse, 2, Len(PathToUse) - 2)
End If

myFile = Dir$(PathToUse & "*.*")

While myFile <> ""
'Open each file and toggle SmartTags
Set myDoc = Documents.Open(PathToUse & myFile)
With ActiveDocument
.EmbedSmartTags = False
End With
'Close the file, saving the changes.
myDoc.Close SaveChanges:=wdSaveChanges
myFile = Dir$()
Wend

End Sub

 

[Guest]

Anne, I have no clue! I don't remember hitting any date fields in Word. If it
happened by accident do you know how to undo it? Thanks for the help, Rianna

 

[Guest]

Gosh Greg it looks like you might be onto something here but "You can set
that option to off in a batch of files by running this macro:" I have no idea
what all this is. How do I run a macro? Figures they have to make turning it
off hard. Thanks for your help. Rianna

 

[Anne Troy]

You can usually see if you have fields by hitting Tools-->Options, View tab
and check to make sure that Field Codes shading is set to "always". (I would
do this whether Greg's response is on the right track or not, so that you
can always see any field codes in a document.)

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[Guest]

OK I'll give it a shot. Thanks Anne, Rianna

You can usually see if you have fields by hitting Tools-->Options, View tab
and check to make sure that Field Codes shading is set to "always". (I would
do this whether Greg's response is on the right track or not, so that you
can always see any field codes in a document.)

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[Greg Maxey]

Rianna,

Well first confirm that this is the cause. Take any file that is showing
you this behaviour and turn that feature off. Press Tools>Options>Save and
uncheck "Embed smart tags." Save the file, close it, reopen it, and close
again. If the prompt is absent, then I was on to something.

This problem didn't occur with new files created, only previous files. You
can manually repeat the process above on each file as you are using them, or
you can run that macro on a batch of files. See:
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for instructions for installing a
macro.

 

[Tony Jollans]

I'm sure Anne and Greg can sort you out ... I just want to say that if there
is only one feature of Word that's driving you insane you're really quite
lucky

 

[Guest]

Hey Greg, thanks a lot for the help, I'll check it out. Rianna

 

[Guest]

Tony! You're right about one, there are some others. That one though is like
a stalker, trying to ruin my life! Rianna