[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If Word runs correctly in Office Safe Mode, then the problem is with
Normal.dot, the Registry, or an add-in. In this case, I would definitely
suspect some kind of add-in. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...sInstalled.htm.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"LJ" wrote in message
...
Yes, that is helpful to know. I have been working in safe mode in Word
and
Excel tonight, but this continues to happen so often that I can not make
progress in either application. Thanks for your input; if you have any
more
suggestions, please don't hesitate to share. I have tried everything I
can
think of, including reinstalling Office using the fix/repair option.
Nothing
has helped to stop this or even slow it down. In fact, it is getting
worse.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Office Safe Mode is different from Windows Safe Mode.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
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"LJ" wrote in message
...
I'm using Word in safe mode now, but it hasn't been long enough yet to
tell
if the pesky Save As will persist. I will see how this goes tonight
and
stay
in touch. Re. malwa I run both Ad-Aware and Spyware Doctor
regularly
(in
addition to AVG Virus and Norton Virus/Firewall) to keep that stuff
out.
I
know that AVG and Norton are not meant to co-exist, but I have never
had a
problem as long as I loaded Norton first. I try to make it as
difficult
as I
can for any of that nasty stuff to set up camp.

I didn't know that I could start a single application in safe mode;
always
thought it could only be done at the Windows start-up. Thanks for the
info.
As I said, this has been happening for me in Word, Excel, and Outlook,
so
it
will be interesting to see if it ceases in Word and not the others.

Thank you for your help.

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

Fascinating! This certainly isn't normal Word behaviour.

If this happens so rapidly that you can't type anything after
dismissing
one
prompt before seeing another then it seems unlikely that it is
something
you
are accidentally triggering. The implication is that some software
is
running behind the scenes. Anything as insistent as this I would
consider
malware of some sort (and I do consider much 'genuine' software to
behave so
badly as to be so classified) but it may be an addin deliberately
designed
to force you to save your work regularly to stop you losing it. If
you
start
Word in safe mode (press and hold Ctrl while Word starts) do you
still
get
the problem?

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"LJ" wrote in message
...
Hi Doug.

I am so glad that "Student with Word" has given me a place to
start.
I'm
sure this problem is not being caused by inadvertent keyboard
commands; I
tried typing "the quick brown fox" a few times to check out this
out.
"Save
as" popped up indiscriminately. Also, I am using a computer that
is
only
two
months old; it came with Windows and Office loaded, and there are
no
Addins
yet (that I can find). I also checked for macros...not one yet.

Perhaps I can supply a little more info. that might be helpful.

1. This problem is not confined to Word. It also happens when I
am
working
with Excel and Outlook. I haven't tested it out in PPoint,
Access, or
Publisher.

2. It doesn't start happening right away, but once it starts
happening it
speeds up (becomes more "insistent"). At first, the popups are
5-10
seconds
apart, and it doesn't matter if I "cancel" or "save as," they
begin
speeding
up until they are reocurring so fast that I can not type one
letter of
text
between them.

3. The only way to continue working is to reboot the computer.
Then,
after
15 or 20 minutes, the cycle starts all over again.

This is so aggravating that it has taken all of the pleasure out
of
having
the great new laptop that I have waited so long to be able to
purchase. I
appreciate your response to Student with Word and am hoping that
you
will
hang in there with us until we can figure out how to correct this.

Thank you!

LJ


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

That is not normal behaviour so I would suspect one of two
things:

You are accidently invoking the keyboard command for saving the
document

or

There is some add-in on your system that is doing it. Look
under
ToolsTemplates and Addins to see what is there.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself
of
my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Student with Word" Student with

wrote
in
message
...
I have Windows XP and am using Microsoft Office Word 2003.
Lately,
while
I'm
working on a Word document, the "Save As" feature keeps
popping up
in
the
middle of my document. Whether I click on "Cancel" or save
the
document,
the
box only goes away temporarily. Sometimes it reappears in
seconds
after
I've
gotten it to go away.