Yes. After just a few minutes, Save As starts popping up so fast that I can
not even grap an opportunity to "X Out" of the application. Again, choosing
to save over choosing to cancel makes absolutely no difference. This is
maddening!
"Tony Jollans" wrote:
Fascinating! This certainly isn't normal Word behaviour.
If this happens so rapidly that you can't type anything after dismissing one
prompt before seeing another then it seems unlikely that it is something you
are accidentally triggering. The implication is that some software is
running behind the scenes. Anything as insistent as this I would consider
malware of some sort (and I do consider much 'genuine' software to behave so
badly as to be so classified) but it may be an addin deliberately designed
to force you to save your work regularly to stop you losing it. If you start
Word in safe mode (press and hold Ctrl while Word starts) do you still get
the problem?
--
Enjoy,
Tony
"LJ" wrote in message
...
Hi Doug.
I am so glad that "Student with Word" has given me a place to start. I'm
sure this problem is not being caused by inadvertent keyboard commands; I
tried typing "the quick brown fox" a few times to check out this out.
"Save
as" popped up indiscriminately. Also, I am using a computer that is only
two
months old; it came with Windows and Office loaded, and there are no
Addins
yet (that I can find). I also checked for macros...not one yet.
Perhaps I can supply a little more info. that might be helpful.
1. This problem is not confined to Word. It also happens when I am
working
with Excel and Outlook. I haven't tested it out in PPoint, Access, or
Publisher.
2. It doesn't start happening right away, but once it starts happening it
speeds up (becomes more "insistent"). At first, the popups are 5-10
seconds
apart, and it doesn't matter if I "cancel" or "save as," they begin
speeding
up until they are reocurring so fast that I can not type one letter of
text
between them.
3. The only way to continue working is to reboot the computer. Then,
after
15 or 20 minutes, the cycle starts all over again.
This is so aggravating that it has taken all of the pleasure out of having
the great new laptop that I have waited so long to be able to purchase. I
appreciate your response to Student with Word and am hoping that you will
hang in there with us until we can figure out how to correct this.
Thank you!
LJ
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
That is not normal behaviour so I would suspect one of two things:
You are accidently invoking the keyboard command for saving the document
or
There is some add-in on your system that is doing it. Look under
ToolsTemplates and Addins to see what is there.
--
Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Student with Word" Student with wrote
in
message ...
I have Windows XP and am using Microsoft Office Word 2003. Lately,
while
I'm
working on a Word document, the "Save As" feature keeps popping up in
the
middle of my document. Whether I click on "Cancel" or save the
document,
the
box only goes away temporarily. Sometimes it reappears in seconds
after
I've
gotten it to go away.