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How can I stop "Save As" from popping up repeadedly while I work?
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. |
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How can I stop "Save As" from popping up repeadedly while I work?
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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I'm guessing LJ has something like SaveReminder running (see
http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tony Jollans" my forename at my surname dot com wrote in message ... 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. |
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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. |
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Very interesting site Susanne. I'm sure that I have not loaded this on
purpose and could not find anything by this name when I ran a search. I also checked currently running processes in the task manager and didn't find anything like this there. I will keep looking. Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'm guessing LJ has something like SaveReminder running (see http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tony Jollans" my forename at my surname dot com wrote in message ... 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. |
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Office Safe Mode is different from Windows Safe Mode.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. |
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Yes. After just a few minutes, Save As starts popping up so fast that I can
not even grap an opportunity to "X Out" of the application. Again, choosing to save over choosing to cancel makes absolutely no difference. This is maddening! "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. |
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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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. |
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"Student with Word" wrote: 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. |
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How can I stop "Save As" from popping up repeadedly while I wo
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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. |
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How can I stop "Save As" from popping up repeadedly while I wo
If you continue to have problems with Word running in safe mode and you are
sure that you have ruled out malware, then you either have a driver problem - update the display driver and the printer driver - or you have a hardware problem - the fact that it starts after 15-20 minutes suggests an overheating component that is breaking down after this time. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org LJ wrote: 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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. |
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I have had same experience.
Your problem is probably, that the default folder for your auto saved documents is srite protected. That means that you don't have the rights to write in that folder. If you check your default folder, or the folder in which it is contained, it is write protected. Change the access rights for the folder, or find another where you have the rights. Let me know if it works. Regards Flemming Quote:
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