This indicates that something is marking the document as 'dirty'. This is
usually a macro, a third party add-in or a field (such as a date field)
updating on opening.

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"Modem Ani" wrote in message
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: Using Word 2002. When I open a document and do nothing more than scroll
: through it, or click my mouse anywhere inside the document, upon closing
the
: document Word asks "Do you want to save the changes to name of
document?"
: even though absolutely no changes were made. This doesn't happen with all
: documents, only some. How do I stop this?
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: Modem Ani
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