I think you have to live with it. You can clear the check box for "Update
fields" on the Print tab of Tools | Options, but (a) this can cause serious
problems, and (b) fields in the header will be updated anyway (though I'm
not sure this generates an Undo item)

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"SHG818" wrote in message
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What can I do to avoid that, or is it one of those things that one has to
learn to live with.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you have just printed the document, then the fields have been
updated,
which dirties the document.

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"SHG818" wrote in message
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Whenever I print a previously saved document and then go to close that
document, I am being asked if I want to "save" it. It's quite
annoying.