Prompt to Save When No Changes Have Been Made

[BirderBob]

Recently, I find that whenever I open a document and copy any text from it, Word prompts me to save the document (Do you want to save changes you made to ...) even though I did not make any changes. If I simply open a document and close it, I do not get the prompt. It seems to be triggered by copying any text. I find this very annoying and would like to stop it from happening.


I have attached an example document that exhibits this behavior.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Bob

[BruceM]

Maybe it's the graven image aspect of the thing. Once you have copied (or printed) a document you have taken part of its essence, and it is changed forever.

I'm kidding, of course. Seriously, I don't think there is a way to stop the behavior you describe. One of my pet peeves is the number of routine and meaningless advisories that pop up, getting users in the habit of clicking through every error message, question, or notification. Then one day a message is of real consequence, but you click through it like the 99 messages that came before it, and bad things happen.

I hope I'm wrong that there is no way to stop this, but in the past I have spent some time looking into it and have come up with nothing.

[Charles Kenyon]

Your document does not exhibit the behavior you describe on my system.
Does it happen on your system when Word is in Safe mode?

I suspect an Add-In. Add-Ins in Microsoft Word

[BirderBob]

It exhibits the same behavior in Safe Mode.

[Charles Kenyon]

I checked again. Your document does not exhibit the described behavior on my system(s). Do you have some kind of document management program? It is not a function of how Word works and is most likely some third-party program.

By copying, I assume you mean selecting text and then using Ctrl+C or some other method to put the selected text into the clipboard.

[BirderBob]

SOLVED!

I have a gadget called "Clipboarder" to manage my clipboard. When I close it, Word does not prompt to save; when I re-enable it, I get the prompt.

So I guess I will just live with it.

Thanks Charles for your suggestions. I really appreciate being able to get the help.

Bob

[Charles Kenyon]

You are welcome. Don't know the purpose of the clipboarder. Are you aware that the Office Clipboard (which remains active so long as an office application is running) holds up to 10 entries?