Whenever I open a word document sent to me as an email attachment, when I try
to close the document, Word 2002 always asks me if I want to save my changes,
even if I have not made any. Why is this and can I turn this off?

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Whenever I open a word document sent to me as an email attachment, when I try
to close the document, Word 2002 always asks me if I want to save my changes,
even if I have not made any. Why is this and can I turn this off?

The document may contain some fields (such as page numbers) that are updating; .
This will "dirty" the document, thus Word asks if you want to save. I know of no
way to stop this happening from your end, although you could, conceivably, use a
macro for closing that would ignore the "dirty" state. You'd want to be very
careful with it, however, as it would result in a complete editing loss if you
used it with a "real" document:

Sub CloseWithoutPrompt()
ActiveDocument.Close wdDoNotSaveChanges
End Sub

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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