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[Guest]

I'm betting everyone including myself has been through this before and it's
kind of sad to have to go another round but here it is! For Word 2003

After pulling up a doc and doing nothing other than, say printing or even
viewing, Word keeps on asking me if I want to save the document before
closing it. Again, I have not made changes. Issues I have taken care of
previously include all the commentary I've seen about Smart Tags. In all
possible areas I've found on this forum, boxes or functional activation areas
have been unchecked or otherwise disabled. Further, these are not files that
have header or footer standard text adders for auto-date et al, that would
update each time the doc is opened.

I'd thought I'd taken care of this issue previously but have found it's back
to bug me more!

Thanks for input.

jl

 

[Graham Mayor]

Printing a document changes internal pointers in the document seen as a
change that needs saving.

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[Guest]

Ouch!!

Graham--thanks for responding though that answer
truly sucks! While Word may be a good product, the
irritations like this really detract from its value.

Understanding, however, always helps. Again, my
thanks for the input.

jl

 

[drpaul]

I am having this problem now all the time as well and cannot figure out
why two of my 4 computers that have Word 2003 installed are doing it
and two are not? They are akk patched with all updates and they do not
share many documents? There was supposed to be a fix for this at
Microsoft, but this has never worked to stop the repeated request to
save any and all opened documents, even if blank and even if never
changed or edited???? What's the fix for this or is there one?

Dr. Paul

 

[Guest]

Ditto. I can open a doc to view, close it, and no problem. I can open an
identical one to view, and I am asked if I want to save changes. I've
checked every property and other angle I can think of, but I am baffled and
getting really irked.

Can someone help us?

 

[Guest]

For both Tankman and Dr. Paul:

One item that might reduce the irritation for both of you is the
subject of "Smart Tags". While I don't know when this feature
was added, I do know that dumping all of these options, both
for the product in general, and, for prior saved docs, can reduce
some of the issues.

From a general point of view, go Tools>Options>Save then uncheck
the box Embed Smart Tags.

There are other places where Smart Tag options reside--I don't always
remember all of it...but this would start you on the right track. What
sucks is that the option seems to choose itself by default so many of
your existing docs may have this feature selected and you would not
have known it.....it seems to go doc by doc. To make sure this setting
takes in future docs, you would need to call up your "Normal.doc" and
make sure it does not have this option checked.

jl

 

[Guest]

YES .. YES .. YES .. YES .. months of irritation is now gone.

THANK YOU !!

 

[Guest]

You're welcome.....every once in a blue moon I'm able
to help? Jeepers.

Have a good Thanksgiving.

jl

 

[Guest]

Thank you so much. I clicked off the "Smart Tags" and it solved my problem.
I had updated a docuemnt. I saved it with the new update and printed it with
no problelm. However every time I opened it it kept asking if I wanted to
save it even though I didn't change it. So frusteratingf. It doesn't do it
to all my documents I update. But at least now I can correct it to the one
it does do it to. Thanks Again.