The following KB article could be relevant for you:

You are prompted to save changes when you close a Word 2002 document
even though you have made no changes
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816473/en-us

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"ElliottQ" wrote in message
...
i have hundreds of word documents created in various versions of
word.
currently I used word 2002. when I open a document to view it and
then
without making ANY change at all, I close it, one of two things
happens:
1) it closes
2) I get a warning sound and dialog box saying "do you want to save
changes."

The second type of response is annoying and a waste of time when I
have done
nothing at all, not even moved my cursor thru the document. I have
explored
the documents for which I get response 1 vs. response 2. I cannot
find a
difference. Can someone tell me why some documents close
immediately and
others do not, and if there is anything I can do to change that?
Thank you