Why does Word tell me a document has changed when it hasn't?

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I noticed this behavier with my office also. but it started after i opened one of my old files that had macros and custom tool bars. ever since I got this problem with all documents that never had it. I made sure that non of the macros did run (Highe security) and for some reason the custom bar is copied to the default settings file. i deleted it but this did not fix the problem. I'm on this case. Now and I hope i fix it.

I did have access to freshly formatted PC, I did open one of the documents that keep causing this issue in that PC and it did not ask me to save when i closed it . This is a clue that the problem is in the setting of Office

I have got a different problem, word files appear with dates of "last time this document was opened", that are impossible. For example, the computer will tell that such a word document was opened at such hour when nobody was home, and the computer was disconnected.

Have any clues?, Virus? Bug? Bios batery?

Strange stuff.

Thanks,

Jcm

Well, perhaps it's too obvious, but ... is the clock on your computer keeping time properly?

I get the same msg, but only on some documents. My problem is that I can click yes when it asks if I want to save the changes, but when immediately reopen it, and do nothing but close it, it asks once again if I want to save changes. I've checked this with nothing else running, no other document open, etc., and it still asks if I want to save the changes. This really is annoying. I would appreciate any help anyone could give. Thanks.

Did you check the items discussed in the article? Those are usually the culprit in situations exactly as you describe.

I had the same problem and created a new file line by line until I got the "do you want to save" etc. The lines forcing the save for me were dates that were assigned smart tags. When you put the cursor over the date you get an I icon with a drop down that gives you the clue.
So if this is what is getting you then you can go to Tools then autocorrect options and select smart tags. At this point I just disabled the "label text with smart tags" then clicked on Remove smart tags and I no longer am having the problem. You might want to check out this possibility.

i just have a microsoft word question. how do i add page numbers to my document?

-urgent

This article from my friend Allen Wyatt should help: http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/W224_Page_Numbers.html

I had the same problem and I knew that it had to be a setting in Word because I could open and close the same document on one computer without any prompting, but on the other it would ALWAYS prompt me to save. The solution was to uncheck the "embed smart tags" in the tools -> options -> save tab. I am glad I found that. What a pain.

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