<<one day I'm gonna save it by mistake and probably open some floodwaters!>> ACTUALLY, saving it may stop it....if you are always being asked to save it and you say no, of course you will always be asked again. Why not make a backup copy of normal.dot, then open the document and says YES and see what happens? Maybe it won't have any real effect except it might STOP the prompting? If you backup normal.dot before you try it, what's the harm? Especially if the only thing you have in normal.dot is some margin settings Linda Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com ABC Free Ezine ~ Free Ebooks and Tutorials *all outgoing mail scanned by Norton AV. If you got a bug that looks like it came from me, it did NOT! -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anne Robson Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 4:48 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Frequent Save Changes Prompt in Word 2002 My normal.dot is literally a blank page just with margin settings. The only thing that might be causing it - from what I can deduce from everybody's replies - is that for some reason Word isn't finding our networked printer on start up very reliably. This seems to have started when we loaded a proprietary program that has its own virtual printer (bit like PDF995) to create pdf files. Then I get messages from Word asking me if I want to continue waiting for the default printer to load. But this problem with prompting to save changes to normal.dot isn't happening consistently with the occurrences of not finding the printer. I am running Adobe Reader but can't find where to look for any plug-ins. As far as I know I've not changed anything anyway, so it would have been down to an auto-update if this had been the case. My PC is virus checked every day and my virus definitions are updated each morning so I don't *think* it's virus activity. As Ray S says, this is more nuisance than real issue but one day I'm gonna save it by mistake and probably open some floodwaters! Thanks guys! Will battle on and try to find out what's really causing it. But I'm baffled for now! LOL Anne ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************