[mso] Re: Frequent Save Changes Prompt in Word 2002
- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:48:29 -0500
<< Maybe these "foreign born" documents
are undergoing some kind of conversion every time they are opened on this
PC?>>
Well, that's certainly a good possibility. Go to Tools>Options and click on
the Save tab and see what format is the default Save type for the offending
machine (the one I prefer is just plain old Word document (*.doc)...NO
VERSION SPECIFIC STUFF....THEN, try opening one of them and do File>Save As
and save it as the same exact type you chose in Tools>Options, then close it
and open it again and see if you get the normal.dot prompt.
Linda
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of R Shapp
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 7:41 AM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Frequent Save Changes Prompt in Word 2002
Hi Linda and Ray,
Thanks for your quick replies.
<<The most common culprit for this is a field. If your document has a field
for - say - the date of the letter or a 'last printed' time,>>
None of these documents contain any fields. One of the documents that
triggers the "Save Changes" prompt consists of nothing but text. It does
have
the page number in the header. Although the pagination isn't changing, (in
fact, absolutely nothing is changing), maybe the generation of the
pagination
when the document opens is enough to give the prompt. Is that possible?
The
document has six pages. I doubt pagination is the culprit because other
documents have page numbers in the header, but they don't trigger the
prompt.
Also, I added page number to a non-prompting document, and it continues to
open and close quietly without any prompts.
In Tools>Templates and Addins, the document template window contains the
word
"Normal". the Global templates window is completely blank.
I occasionally use the Adobe reader, but never Acrobat. I did have Norton's
AV on this PC, but I uninstalled it about 18 months ago.
Although I haven't done an exhaustive examination, at least some of these
prompting documents were originally created on a different PC which uses
Word
2002 without any Service Packs. The version of Word on this PC is also
2002,
but it has had Service Pack 3 applied. Maybe these "foreign born" documents
are undergoing some kind of conversion every time they are opened on this
PC?
As I said in my original post, this is a trivial problem, and I'm willing to
drop it unless you can suggest further troubleshooting steps.
Regards,
Ray Shapp
WinXP Home SP1
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