is there a way to time out the "save file" dialog in Word 2003 or 2007 when a user chooses to shutdown or logoff of a workstation? My users will forget to save a document, then choose logoff and walk away from a machine, but the machine will not logoff because Word will not close. Thanks
Hello baker itsbaker wrote: > is there a way to time out the "save file" dialog in Word 2003 or 2007 when a > user chooses to shutdown or logoff of a workstation? My users will forget to > save a document, then choose logoff and walk away from a machine, but the > machine will not logoff because Word will not close. not sure if this could be done from the Word side of things. I'm pretty sure I would not *want* to do this to begin with: an unnecessarily running machine overnight doesn't cost a whole lot; an important file unsaved, OTOH ... 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/
its not an issue of running the machine, its an issue of a user not being logged off from a shared machine. it exposes their session to the next user of that machine. "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote: > Hello baker > > itsbaker wrote: > > is there a way to time out the "save file" dialog in Word 2003 or 2007 when a > > user chooses to shutdown or logoff of a workstation? My users will forget to > > save a document, then choose logoff and walk away from a machine, but the > > machine will not logoff because Word will not close. > > not sure if this could be done from the Word side of things. I'm pretty > sure I would not *want* to do this to begin with: an unnecessarily > running machine overnight doesn't cost a whole lot; an important file > unsaved, OTOH ... > > 2cents > Robert > -- > /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | > \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports > X Against HTML | for | with Word? > / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ >
itsbaker wrote: > its not an issue of running the machine, its an issue of a user not being > logged off from a shared machine. it exposes their session to the next user > of that machine. OK, I was assuming a corporate environment where the risk of loosing data has to be weighed against resources needed to keep a machine running. Again, I'm not sure this really is a good idea, but I'd ask some folks over in a forum/newsgroup for your operating system whether there's a method to force a shutdown that you can use in your situation. The shutdown command it completely outside of Word -- which doesn't mean there wouldn't be a clever way to notice it from within Word and act accordingly. But any solution you find there would only work on Word files, of course, and an OS-related approach works for any open file. HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/
