I have numerous technical documents in word format. When I open some of them for viewing and then try to close them I get a pop up box asking to save or remove changes. What causes this? How do I stop it?. Runing Microft Word 2002. -- Thanks, Robert
Hi Robert, > I have numerous technical documents in word format. When I open some of them > for viewing and then try to close them I get a pop up box asking to save or > remove changes. What causes this? How do I stop it?. > If the document contains dynamic content (such as a Date field) that updates automatically, that will cause Word to prompt to save changes. Page numbering will also update automatically. Assuming that's the case, and there's nothing in the document that needs to update, you can lock the fields. You need to go into each part of the document (main text, headers, footers, etc.) and - press Ctrl+A to select all - press Ctrl+F11 to lock the fields (Ctrl+Shift+F11 will unlock fields) Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)
