sick of this messege when you open up a word document and do NOTHING to it but it asks you if you want to save it.

any reason for this that anyone knows?

Could happen if you have a time/date field in the document that auto-updates when you open it. Sure there are quite a few other subtle things that change when you open a word doc but can't think of them at the moment.

erm to make sure you save it so you dont just close it and errrrm lose everything youve just done? i dont think its really brainy enough to actually know if youve done anything to it at all, so it asks you when ever youve opened it just in case you added a full stop or something, or just tweaked the formatting

your fed up of it, rightly so, but i bet youd be more fed up with retyping out a 300 page thesis or something, from scratch

save regularly peeps

Originally posted by melthebell
erm to make sure you save it so you dont just close it and errrrm lose everything youve just done? i dont think its really brainy enough to actually know if youve done anything to it at all, so it asks you when ever youve opened it just in case you added a full stop or something, or just tweaked the formatting

your fed up of it, rightly so, but i bet youd be more fed up with retyping out a 300 page thesis or something, from scratch

save regularly peeps :)

woops, im arush before i go out, so clicked quote rather than edit :P
and edited the quote lol

so ive copied the added text in my quote back into the first post :P

Originally posted by melthebell
erm to make sure you save it so you dont just close it and errrrm lose everything youve just done? i dont think its really brainy enough to actually know if youve done anything to it at all, so it asks you when ever youve opened it just in case you added a full stop or something, or just tweaked the formatting

your fed up of it, rightly so, but i bet youd be more fed up with retyping out a 300 page thesis or something, from scratch

save regularly peeps

you'd think that something with more lines of code than there is information in the human genome could have included a dirty flag (a flag that is set when the user makes a change, thus allowing it to only ask that question when appropriate).

In reality, word does so much stuff in the background that the dirty flag is probably being set by some automatic information it's squirrelling away in your file, so as far as the app is concerned something has changed.

Originally posted by melthebell
erm to make sure you save it so you dont just close it and errrrm lose everything youve just done? i dont think its really brainy enough to actually know if youve done anything to it at all, so it asks you when ever youve opened it just in case you added a full stop or something, or just tweaked the formatting

your fed up of it, rightly so, but i bet youd be more fed up with retyping out a 300 page thesis or something, from scratch

save regularly peeps
i open up, then close. do nothing. thats whats confusing. i know for a fact im not changing anything, its not a big problem but its just annoying

Every version of Word that I've used does have a dirty flag on the template and on the document.

If you're just starting a new document and closing it and getting the message then I'd look at the following :

Have you recently removed fonts from your PC that are used in the Normal.dot template?
Have you removed the printed that's specified in the Normal.dot template?

You could try renaming the existing normal.dot template for Word to soemthing like crap.dot, then re-running Word. Word will recreate a Normal.dot template so if you have managed to get it corrupted the corrupt version will be replaced by a clean one.

This will, however, remove any modifications you've made to normal.dot in the past.

Joe