Jay, if this happens again I'll check and see if the document is
attached to a template other than Normal. I don't think it was, but I
could be wrong.

However, even if it was, it still wouldn't make sense. Again, I was not
closing the document, I was only saving it, so there was no reason for a
prompt to save changes in the document template.

Larry



Jay Freedman wrote:
Hi Larry,

Something we haven't nailed down yet: When you're working on the
document where this happens, is the document based on Normal.dot or on
some other template?

The reason I ask is that if it's Normal.dot that changed, you should
be seeing a message with different wording: "Changes have been made
that affect the global template, Normal. Do you want to save those
changes?" You can see this illustrated at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...514521033.aspx.

The message you quoted is the one you get when the base of the
document is some *other* template, in which you've made some change
such as a modified style or a new autotext. The "prompt to save
Normal.dot" option has no effect on this message.




Anne and Jay,

Sometimes I have the "prompt to save Normal" feature on, most of the
time not, but even if it's on that doesn't answer my question. I
was not closing Word, I was saving a document. Why should there be
any prompt regarding the saving of changes in the Normal template
when I was simply saving a document?

Moreover, the same thing just happened again now. I was saving an
unsaved document, and got the same prompt,

"Do you _also_ want to save changes to the Document Template?"
(Note that "also.")

Further, the "Prompt to save Normal template" feature is NOT checked
right now. Yet I got this weird prompt. What does saving a
document have to do with saving changes in Normal. It makes no
sense.

Larry




"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
news
Just a bit more background:

The reason the prompt is available is that silently changing
things in the Normal.dot template is a favorite trick of macro
viruses. You should leave the option turned on at all times. If
you get the prompt and you don't know what changed, you should
answer No and the changes won't be saved.

There are a few problems with that scenario. For one thing, many
users have no idea what Normal.dot is, let alone what they might
have done during an editing session to change it. (Some examples
a adding or modifying a style and checking the "Add to
template" box in the dialog; making a new AutoCorrect or AutoText
entry; creating or modifying a toolbar button or a keyboard
shortcut; or changing a font setting in the Format Font dialog
and clicking the Default button.)

Even if you're aware of the things that can change the template,
you may not remember everything you did during a long session.

Finally -- thankfully! -- the #$% hackers and script kiddies seem
to have found that it's easier or more satisfyingly destructive
to make "regular" viruses rather than macro viruses, so there are
fewer macro attacks than there used to be. Also, the major
antivirus apps are pretty good at spotting infected documents and
quarantining them before they can even be opened.

One other thing: if the document is based on a template other than
Normal.dot and you did something that changed that template (for
example, adding a custom toolbar), you'll be prompted to save the
template regardless of the setting of the option for Normal.dot.
It's just the same as the prompt you get if you edit a document
and then click Close without saving.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:48:42 -0400, "Anne Troy"
wrote:

Tools--Options, Save tab. If Prompt to save Normal template is
checked.
Most likely, it wasn't checked before.
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~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com
www.MyExpertsOnline.com


"Larry" wrote in message
...

Word 97 which I've been using since 1998. I saved an unsaved
document,
and got this message, which I've never seen befo

"Do you also want to save changes to the Document Template?"

How is it that, having saved documents a couple of million
times
before
in Word 97, I never got this message until now? And what the
heck
does
it mean? Just wondering