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Comment from John Sharp on 2008-04-01

2008-04-01T14:38:36Z

After days of frustration and hours of trawling through Google with different search phrases....at last....the solution. Unticked the "EMBEDED SMART TAGS" box and resaved the template.......et voila! Thank you.

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Comment from Den on 2007-09-12

2007-09-12T11:13:58Z

Ian & Kevin - top stuff.
What Jeff, Andy & Alex said, only louder!!!
A total pain annoying me for years, solved in seconds!
The next question is ... "why would someone create software that irritating?"
Don't answer that!

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Comment from Alex on 2007-08-06

2007-08-07T06:54:57Z

Ian & Kevin, you guys are AWESOME.

Now, I haven't tried the solution yet, as I need to do testing first, I know one or the other will work cuz it makes sense.

It has taken me years to actually find this solution. It has annoyed me for long enough. I did a search before but found nothing. On some forums, people even made fun of the people saying there is no such thing as this problem, because their PC didn't do that.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Comment from andy on 2006-11-03

2006-11-03T13:05:49Z

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Ian and Kevin. I disabled those not-so-smart tags and finally got rid of the problem.

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Comment from Jim on 2006-04-28

2006-04-28T13:35:43Z

Can you turn off background repagination in Word or Excel?

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Comment from jeff on 2006-03-30

2006-03-30T16:02:45Z

Kevin-Thank you for the post. You solved the mystery.

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Comment from penis enlargement on 2006-02-08

2006-02-09T01:15:41Z

Three phrases should be among the most common in our daily usage. They are: Thank you, I am grateful and I appreciate.

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Comment from penis enlargement on 2006-01-21

2006-01-21T22:33:46Z

Three phrases should be among the most common in our daily usage. They are: Thank you, I am grateful and I appreciate.

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Comment from Kevin on 2006-01-19

2006-01-19T12:58:48Z

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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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2005-12-22

2005-12-22T23:03:11Z

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

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Comment from magda on 2005-12-22

2005-12-22T20:17:36Z

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

-urgent

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Comment from Ian on 2005-11-22

2005-11-22T18:18:50Z

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.

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Comment from Leo on 2005-08-30

2005-08-30T21:17:27Z

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

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Comment from David on 2005-08-30

2005-08-30T21:08:36Z

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.

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Comment from Leo on 2004-09-26

2004-09-27T05:17:17Z

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

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Comment from jcm on 2004-09-23

2004-09-24T00:10:11Z

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

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Comment from xxx on 2004-09-13

2004-09-14T01:41:03Z

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

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Comment from xxx on 2004-09-08

2004-09-09T01:51:22Z

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.

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