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Irritating "Save" prompt when nothing has changed
Hello,
I'm using Word 2002 at work with WinXP and Word 2000 at home with Win2KPro. Word 2002 has a very irritating feature which I haven't so far been able to get rid of via the usual help searches. When I close a Word document, it always asks if I want to save my changes, even when I haven't made any. Word 2000 doesn't do this. Word 2002 also opens a blank document every time, as well as the document I want. How can I stop Word from asking me if I want to save non-existent changes every time I close it? Thanks in advance, Frank |
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Irritating "Save" prompt when nothing has changed
Frank,
WRT the save changes prompt, this could be caused by ToolsOptionsSaveEmbed SmartTags being checked in the offendeing docuements. -- Greg Maxey A peer in "peer to peer" support Rockledge, FL To e-mail, edit out the "w...spam" in F1 wrote: Hello, I'm using Word 2002 at work with WinXP and Word 2000 at home with Win2KPro. Word 2002 has a very irritating feature which I haven't so far been able to get rid of via the usual help searches. When I close a Word document, it always asks if I want to save my changes, even when I haven't made any. Word 2000 doesn't do this. Word 2002 also opens a blank document every time, as well as the document I want. How can I stop Word from asking me if I want to save non-existent changes every time I close it? Thanks in advance, Frank |
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Irritating "Save" prompt when nothing has changed
Iceman,
My experiece was this was only a problem when opening files on my desktop (Office2002) that had been created on my laptop (Office2000). I suppose if it is unchecked in the template then new files created would be unchecked. You can run this macro to turn it off on all files in a directory: 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 -- Greg Maxey A peer in "peer to peer" support Rockledge, FL To e-mail, edit out the "w...spam" in ssiwirski wrote: I have the same problem. This solution does seem to fix it, however--is there any way to have "Embed Smart Tags" unchecked as the default? Otherwise you have to do this on every offending document. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Frank, WRT the save changes prompt, this could be caused by ToolsOptionsSaveEmbed SmartTags being checked in the offendeing docuements. -- Greg Maxey A peer in "peer to peer" support Rockledge, FL To e-mail, edit out the "w...spam" in F1 wrote: Hello, I'm using Word 2002 at work with WinXP and Word 2000 at home with Win2KPro. Word 2002 has a very irritating feature which I haven't so far been able to get rid of via the usual help searches. When I close a Word document, it always asks if I want to save my changes, even when I haven't made any. Word 2000 doesn't do this. Word 2002 also opens a blank document every time, as well as the document I want. How can I stop Word from asking me if I want to save non-existent changes every time I close it? Thanks in advance, Frank |
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Irritating "Save" prompt when nothing has changed
Hi Greg,
Many thanks for your help. Much appreciated. I'll give the macro a try. Regards, Frank |
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Irritating "Save" prompt when nothing has changed
Little bit easier solution I found by reading older messages in this newsgroup.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=816473 "F1" wrote: Hi Greg, Many thanks for your help. Much appreciated. I'll give the macro a try. Regards, Frank |
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"Greg Maxey" wrote: Iceman, My experiece was this was only a problem when opening files on my desktop (Office2002) that had been created on my laptop (Office2000). I suppose if it is unchecked in the template then new files created would be unchecked. You can run this macro to turn it off on all files in a directory: 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 -- Greg Maxey A peer in "peer to peer" support Rockledge, FL To e-mail, edit out the "w...spam" in ssiwirski wrote: I have the same problem. This solution does seem to fix it, however--is there any way to have "Embed Smart Tags" unchecked as the default? Otherwise you have to do this on every offending document. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Frank, WRT the save changes prompt, this could be caused by ToolsOptionsSaveEmbed SmartTags being checked in the offendeing docuements. -- Greg Maxey A peer in "peer to peer" support Rockledge, FL To e-mail, edit out the "w...spam" in F1 wrote: Hello, I'm using Word 2002 at work with WinXP and Word 2000 at home with Win2KPro. Word 2002 has a very irritating feature which I haven't so far been able to get rid of via the usual help searches. When I close a Word document, it always asks if I want to save my changes, even when I haven't made any. Word 2000 doesn't do this. Word 2002 also opens a blank document every time, as well as the document I want. How can I stop Word from asking me if I want to save non-existent changes every time I close it? Thanks in advance, Frank |
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Irritating "Save" prompt when nothing has changed
Thanks all for this info! It seems as though anything related
to the Smart Tags subject creates significant irritation! It's as though you're transported to the least common denominator user level and are assumed to be completely stupid and need all the irritating prompts and icons that really do nothing more than get in the way! So much for "progress". Thanks again. jl "Greg Maxey" wrote: Frank, WRT the save changes prompt, this could be caused by ToolsOptionsSaveEmbed SmartTags being checked in the offendeing docuements. -- Greg Maxey A peer in "peer to peer" support Rockledge, FL To e-mail, edit out the "w...spam" in F1 wrote: Hello, I'm using Word 2002 at work with WinXP and Word 2000 at home with Win2KPro. Word 2002 has a very irritating feature which I haven't so far been able to get rid of via the usual help searches. When I close a Word document, it always asks if I want to save my changes, even when I haven't made any. Word 2000 doesn't do this. Word 2002 also opens a blank document every time, as well as the document I want. How can I stop Word from asking me if I want to save non-existent changes every time I close it? Thanks in advance, Frank |
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Irritating "Save" prompt when nothing has changed
This is due to a damage in the Normal.doc. Search for the Normal.doc
template in word (you may need to go to control panel/folder options/view and select show hidden files and folders). Open the Normal.doc and hit save. "F1" wrote: Hello, I'm using Word 2002 at work with WinXP and Word 2000 at home with Win2KPro. Word 2002 has a very irritating feature which I haven't so far been able to get rid of via the usual help searches. When I close a Word document, it always asks if I want to save my changes, even when I haven't made any. Word 2000 doesn't do this. Word 2002 also opens a blank document every time, as well as the document I want. How can I stop Word from asking me if I want to save non-existent changes every time I close it? Thanks in advance, Frank |
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Irritating "Save" prompt when nothing has changed
Opening and saving Normal.dot (not Normal.doc) will have no effect at all
unless something has changed in it. In any case, the problem described is *not* due to a damaged Normal.dot. The correct answer (as previously posted is in “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 Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tony" wrote in message ... This is due to a damage in the Normal.doc. Search for the Normal.doc template in word (you may need to go to control panel/folder options/view and select show hidden files and folders). Open the Normal.doc and hit save. "F1" wrote: Hello, I'm using Word 2002 at work with WinXP and Word 2000 at home with Win2KPro. Word 2002 has a very irritating feature which I haven't so far been able to get rid of via the usual help searches. When I close a Word document, it always asks if I want to save my changes, even when I haven't made any. Word 2000 doesn't do this. Word 2002 also opens a blank document every time, as well as the document I want. How can I stop Word from asking me if I want to save non-existent changes every time I close it? Thanks in advance, Frank |
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