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Word forces Save As when Saving
I have had this happen quite a few times since using Word 2007 (Office 2007
suite) over the last 1+ years . At some point while working in a Word document, I press Ctrl-S to save and instead of saving the doc as usually happens, the Save As dialog comes up and I am forced to save the document with another name. This is very, very frustrating and completely interrupts my workflow because after saving with a new name, I have to close the document, delete the original so I can rename the saved-as doc with the right name. This seems to happen when I've been working in the same document for an extended period of time (e.g., about 2 hours this morning), which means that I have saved it many times. I typically save each time I take a break from typing. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a solution? Thanks for all useful input. Windows XP Pro SP 3 Word/Office 2007 Dell hardware 3gb RAM 55gb free disk space |
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Word forces Save As when Saving
UPDATE: This has happened multiple times this morning and I'm getting rather
ticked! "ASinger" wrote: I have had this happen quite a few times since using Word 2007 (Office 2007 suite) over the last 1+ years . At some point while working in a Word document, I press Ctrl-S to save and instead of saving the doc as usually happens, the Save As dialog comes up and I am forced to save the document with another name. This is very, very frustrating and completely interrupts my workflow because after saving with a new name, I have to close the document, delete the original so I can rename the saved-as doc with the right name. This seems to happen when I've been working in the same document for an extended period of time (e.g., about 2 hours this morning), which means that I have saved it many times. I typically save each time I take a break from typing. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a solution? Thanks for all useful input. Windows XP Pro SP 3 Word/Office 2007 Dell hardware 3gb RAM 55gb free disk space |
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Word forces Save As when Saving
UPDATE: This has happened multiple times this morning and I'm getting rather ticked! "ASinger" wrote: I have had this happen quite a few times since using Word 2007 (Office 2007 suite) over the last 1+ years . At some point while working in a Word document, I press Ctrl-S to save and instead of saving the doc as usually happens, the Save As dialog comes up and I am forced to save the document with another name. This is very, very frustrating and completely interrupts my workflow because after saving with a new name, I have to close the document, delete the original so I can rename the saved-as doc with the right name. This seems to happen when I've been working in the same document for an extended period of time (e.g., about 2 hours this morning), which means that I have saved it many times. I typically save each time I take a break from typing. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a solution? Thanks for all useful input. Windows XP Pro SP 3 Word/Office 2007 Dell hardware 3gb RAM 55gb free disk space |
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Word forces Save As when Saving
Are you saving to a network location? The problem most probably concerns the
handling of lock files and if there is a minor disruption in the connection to the save location the document can be disconnected from its lock file and the presence of the orphan lock file will prevent you from saving again to that name. See also http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "ASinger" wrote in message ... UPDATE: This has happened multiple times this morning and I'm getting rather ticked! "ASinger" wrote: I have had this happen quite a few times since using Word 2007 (Office 2007 suite) over the last 1+ years . At some point while working in a Word document, I press Ctrl-S to save and instead of saving the doc as usually happens, the Save As dialog comes up and I am forced to save the document with another name. This is very, very frustrating and completely interrupts my workflow because after saving with a new name, I have to close the document, delete the original so I can rename the saved-as doc with the right name. This seems to happen when I've been working in the same document for an extended period of time (e.g., about 2 hours this morning), which means that I have saved it many times. I typically save each time I take a break from typing. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a solution? Thanks for all useful input. Windows XP Pro SP 3 Word/Office 2007 Dell hardware 3gb RAM 55gb free disk space |
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Word forces Save As when Saving
Are you saving to a network location? The problem most probably concerns the
handling of lock files and if there is a minor disruption in the connection to the save location the document can be disconnected from its lock file and the presence of the orphan lock file will prevent you from saving again to that name. See also http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "ASinger" wrote in message ... UPDATE: This has happened multiple times this morning and I'm getting rather ticked! "ASinger" wrote: I have had this happen quite a few times since using Word 2007 (Office 2007 suite) over the last 1+ years . At some point while working in a Word document, I press Ctrl-S to save and instead of saving the doc as usually happens, the Save As dialog comes up and I am forced to save the document with another name. This is very, very frustrating and completely interrupts my workflow because after saving with a new name, I have to close the document, delete the original so I can rename the saved-as doc with the right name. This seems to happen when I've been working in the same document for an extended period of time (e.g., about 2 hours this morning), which means that I have saved it many times. I typically save each time I take a break from typing. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a solution? Thanks for all useful input. Windows XP Pro SP 3 Word/Office 2007 Dell hardware 3gb RAM 55gb free disk space |
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Word forces Save As when Saving
Hi Graham. I am saving to my local disk. I should have said so in my original
post. I considered that the file might be getting locked for some reason to cause this but have no idea why that would be happening. I am storing the file on the desktop but I don't think that should make a difference. I can say that, maybe twice, I have noticed that a Word document temp file (in the same location as the .docx file) doesn't get deleted when I close the Word document. I have been able to manually delete that file. That has not occurred in the case of the particular document with which I'm getting this problem now though. Any other suggestsion are welcome. I'll check out your link in a bit to see if there is anything there that might be useful though I am storing the doc locally. Thanks. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Are you saving to a network location? The problem most probably concerns the handling of lock files and if there is a minor disruption in the connection to the save location the document can be disconnected from its lock file and the presence of the orphan lock file will prevent you from saving again to that name. See also http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "ASinger" wrote in message ... UPDATE: This has happened multiple times this morning and I'm getting rather ticked! "ASinger" wrote: I have had this happen quite a few times since using Word 2007 (Office 2007 suite) over the last 1+ years . At some point while working in a Word document, I press Ctrl-S to save and instead of saving the doc as usually happens, the Save As dialog comes up and I am forced to save the document with another name. This is very, very frustrating and completely interrupts my workflow because after saving with a new name, I have to close the document, delete the original so I can rename the saved-as doc with the right name. This seems to happen when I've been working in the same document for an extended period of time (e.g., about 2 hours this morning), which means that I have saved it many times. I typically save each time I take a break from typing. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a solution? Thanks for all useful input. Windows XP Pro SP 3 Word/Office 2007 Dell hardware 3gb RAM 55gb free disk space . |
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Word forces Save As when Saving
Hi Graham. I am saving to my local disk. I should have said so in my original
post. I considered that the file might be getting locked for some reason to cause this but have no idea why that would be happening. I am storing the file on the desktop but I don't think that should make a difference. I can say that, maybe twice, I have noticed that a Word document temp file (in the same location as the .docx file) doesn't get deleted when I close the Word document. I have been able to manually delete that file. That has not occurred in the case of the particular document with which I'm getting this problem now though. Any other suggestsion are welcome. I'll check out your link in a bit to see if there is anything there that might be useful though I am storing the doc locally. Thanks. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Are you saving to a network location? The problem most probably concerns the handling of lock files and if there is a minor disruption in the connection to the save location the document can be disconnected from its lock file and the presence of the orphan lock file will prevent you from saving again to that name. See also http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "ASinger" wrote in message ... UPDATE: This has happened multiple times this morning and I'm getting rather ticked! "ASinger" wrote: I have had this happen quite a few times since using Word 2007 (Office 2007 suite) over the last 1+ years . At some point while working in a Word document, I press Ctrl-S to save and instead of saving the doc as usually happens, the Save As dialog comes up and I am forced to save the document with another name. This is very, very frustrating and completely interrupts my workflow because after saving with a new name, I have to close the document, delete the original so I can rename the saved-as doc with the right name. This seems to happen when I've been working in the same document for an extended period of time (e.g., about 2 hours this morning), which means that I have saved it many times. I typically save each time I take a break from typing. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a solution? Thanks for all useful input. Windows XP Pro SP 3 Word/Office 2007 Dell hardware 3gb RAM 55gb free disk space . |
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Word forces Save As when Saving
One thing I did this morning is to reset the AutoRecover path to a local
drive. It defaulted to My Documents, which in our organization, is automatically mapped to a network locaiton to easily facilitate backup. Maybe that file was in accessible at some point. Will see what happens when working this morning. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Are you saving to a network location? The problem most probably concerns the handling of lock files and if there is a minor disruption in the connection to the save location the document can be disconnected from its lock file and the presence of the orphan lock file will prevent you from saving again to that name. See also http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "ASinger" wrote in message ... UPDATE: This has happened multiple times this morning and I'm getting rather ticked! "ASinger" wrote: I have had this happen quite a few times since using Word 2007 (Office 2007 suite) over the last 1+ years . At some point while working in a Word document, I press Ctrl-S to save and instead of saving the doc as usually happens, the Save As dialog comes up and I am forced to save the document with another name. This is very, very frustrating and completely interrupts my workflow because after saving with a new name, I have to close the document, delete the original so I can rename the saved-as doc with the right name. This seems to happen when I've been working in the same document for an extended period of time (e.g., about 2 hours this morning), which means that I have saved it many times. I typically save each time I take a break from typing. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a solution? Thanks for all useful input. Windows XP Pro SP 3 Word/Office 2007 Dell hardware 3gb RAM 55gb free disk space . |
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Word forces Save As when Saving
One thing I did this morning is to reset the AutoRecover path to a local
drive. It defaulted to My Documents, which in our organization, is automatically mapped to a network locaiton to easily facilitate backup. Maybe that file was in accessible at some point. Will see what happens when working this morning. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Are you saving to a network location? The problem most probably concerns the handling of lock files and if there is a minor disruption in the connection to the save location the document can be disconnected from its lock file and the presence of the orphan lock file will prevent you from saving again to that name. See also http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "ASinger" wrote in message ... UPDATE: This has happened multiple times this morning and I'm getting rather ticked! "ASinger" wrote: I have had this happen quite a few times since using Word 2007 (Office 2007 suite) over the last 1+ years . At some point while working in a Word document, I press Ctrl-S to save and instead of saving the doc as usually happens, the Save As dialog comes up and I am forced to save the document with another name. This is very, very frustrating and completely interrupts my workflow because after saving with a new name, I have to close the document, delete the original so I can rename the saved-as doc with the right name. This seems to happen when I've been working in the same document for an extended period of time (e.g., about 2 hours this morning), which means that I have saved it many times. I typically save each time I take a break from typing. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a solution? Thanks for all useful input. Windows XP Pro SP 3 Word/Office 2007 Dell hardware 3gb RAM 55gb free disk space . |
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Word forces Save As when Saving
After resetting my AutoRecover path to a local drive I have not, so far, had
this happen again. That said, it was never often enough to say now that it is resolved, but I am hopeful. Just FYI in case anyone else encounters this issue. April "ASinger" wrote: I have had this happen quite a few times since using Word 2007 (Office 2007 suite) over the last 1+ years . At some point while working in a Word document, I press Ctrl-S to save and instead of saving the doc as usually happens, the Save As dialog comes up and I am forced to save the document with another name. This is very, very frustrating and completely interrupts my workflow because after saving with a new name, I have to close the document, delete the original so I can rename the saved-as doc with the right name. This seems to happen when I've been working in the same document for an extended period of time (e.g., about 2 hours this morning), which means that I have saved it many times. I typically save each time I take a break from typing. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a solution? Thanks for all useful input. Windows XP Pro SP 3 Word/Office 2007 Dell hardware 3gb RAM 55gb free disk space |
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Word forces Save As when Saving
After resetting my AutoRecover path to a local drive I have not, so far, had this happen again. That said, it was never often enough to say now that it is resolved, but I am hopeful. Just FYI in case anyone else encounters this issue. April "ASinger" wrote: I have had this happen quite a few times since using Word 2007 (Office 2007 suite) over the last 1+ years . At some point while working in a Word document, I press Ctrl-S to save and instead of saving the doc as usually happens, the Save As dialog comes up and I am forced to save the document with another name. This is very, very frustrating and completely interrupts my workflow because after saving with a new name, I have to close the document, delete the original so I can rename the saved-as doc with the right name. This seems to happen when I've been working in the same document for an extended period of time (e.g., about 2 hours this morning), which means that I have saved it many times. I typically save each time I take a break from typing. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a solution? Thanks for all useful input. Windows XP Pro SP 3 Word/Office 2007 Dell hardware 3gb RAM 55gb free disk space |
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