See "WD2002: You Are Prompted to Save Changes When You Close a Document Even
Though You Have Made No Changes"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=816473

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
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"Len Belkin" wrote in message
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I have this document that's 'read only'. Lately, whenever I open it and then
close it, Word XP asks "Do you want to save the changes...?" What changes
did I make? All I did was to open the document to read it and then close it.
I didn't touch the keyboard, didn't make any changes. How does Word ask me
"do you want to save the changes...?"

So I humored Word. I saved the document (under a different name, of course)
and then compared the two documents. No surprise: "Word found no changes."

How do I get Word to stop asking me to save this document when I didn't make
any changes?

Len