We're using MS Word 2007 on Vista 64 systems. I've created a template (.dotx) from which we can open Word documents that are pre-formatted in a particular way in order to maximize productivity. The template is also linked to one other file that contains single-source header information that, when updated, also updates the same information in all documents saved from this template. This way, if company information changes, such as phone number, contact, web site, or address, every document saved from this template--going however far back its use goes--will also be updated.



This sort of thing allows company documentation to be very well organized and seamlessly updated from a single source. We can just open the template, start typing in various areas of the document meant to contain particular pieces of information, and save. When we save we're prompted to name the file (.docx), and everything seems to work great.

The problem is this. Every time we reopen the .docx file created from my customized .dotx file, we are bothered with this profoundly annoying and unnecessary harassalog the first time we save:

"do you also want to save changes to the document template?"

The answer is "No". It's not necessary. When an update to the template is necessary, I take care of the update myself.

In fact, all we have to do is open such a .docx file without changing anything, and before we can close the unchanged file, we're bothered with an apparently related harrasalog:

"Do you want to save changes to (template name).dotx?"

Nothing changed? What are we saving changes to? This document was created FROM a template. There is no reason for the .docx file to be bound to its originating .dotx file indefinitely.

Let's assume that we're apt users who know what our .dotx files are linked to, and who know what template our .docx files were created from. Let us also assume that we want our original template to not be updated unless we do so directly and that we want the default answer to this annoying dialog to be "No".

Is there a way to disable this harassalog?

If not, perhaps there's another approach.

Is it possible to setup the template such that when the a .docx file is saved from that template, it will cease to be linked to the template from which it was created? We only need the .docx file to be linked to the header file that contains the updatable company information.

Any meaningful help or insight would be appreciated.

[B]I would check first to see how you are initially Saving your documents:

What do you see THE FIRST TIME YOU (SAVE) when you click Save As, checking what you have in in Save As Type: <Document Type> as opposed to just Save

I am wondering if you are NOT each time you are Saving, you are saving as Template

Hi zyzzyva,

First question: I save the initial document simply by using Cntrl+S, or Save. Since the document that's initially opened is a template, doing a Save is the same as doing a Save As. There aren't any problems here. This works fine.

After the document is saved, every time it's opened again, the behaviors I've described above ensue. Some of these documents are opened and worked on time and again for several months--so you can imagine the annoyance.

Second question: I'll tell you what I see the first time I use Save As upon reopening the document saved from the template, but we don't want to Save As every time we reopen our documents because we would end up with a proliferation of duplicate files that would become impossible to manage.

I just tried it--I get the same "Do you also want to save changes to the document template?" harassalog after using the Save As dialog to name and save the duplicate file.

I am definitely not saving the xxx.doTx file as another xxx.dotx file. When I open the xxx.doTx file, I open it with a double-click, and right away, before even entering content, do a Cntrl+S, at which point I'm presented with the Save As dialog, which saves the new file as yyy.doCx. As I said before, there is no problem with this process, and we're not bothered with any template related harassalogs.

It is only when yyy.doCx is reopened that the behaviors I originally described ensue, whether or not changes are made.

Our entire office is desperate to find a permanent solution to this problem aside from migrating to Open Office (I've checked and none of these template related problems occur in Open Office).

I found that if you select 'Styles' tab > 'Change Styles' > 'Style Set' and click on 'Reset Document Quick Styles' before saving it disables that annoying prompt.

I may be a little late to this thread, but I struggled with this for about 6 hours and finally found a solution for my system and thought I would share in hopes it saves somebody else some grief. My setup is Windows 7 and MS Office 2007 with the constant save prompt happening in Word.

Here is my solution:
Launch Word and click the Office button in the top left.
Click Word options at the bottom of that menu.
Click Add ins on the left.
Click the Go button for COM add ins
Remove the checkmark for Bluetooth **(see options below if not allowed)
Click OK and close out of word.
Launch Word and problem should be gone.

** If you cannot remove the checkmark, you need to launch Word as an Administrator. To do this, close out of Word, find the executable in Program files\Microsoft\Office\Winword.exe or Word.exe and right click. Choose run as Administrator.

If this works and I have saved you lots of time and stress, sign up for an account and post a reply with loads of gratitude and well wishes.

Grantmo, Thank you! I have looked and looked and LOOKED for this answer, and for some reason NOBODY could figure this out. The replies always said something like, "You must be opening the document wrong..." or "There must be a corrupt macro..." or something overly complex. Why didn't anyone, even some of the most advanced Microsoft techs, explain this disabler? How did you figure that out? Never mind, it doesn't matter...just THANK YOU!
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Grantmo, you're a GOD. I found your post after reading about 40 others, and shortly after assembling screenshots of all of the Word option settings from two seemingly identical machines, one getting this infuriating prompt and one not. I'd intended to spend all evening poring over both sets, to deduce the answer -- which would have been fruitless. THANK YOU for posting the solution. May the wind be always at your back.

It's profoundly embarrassing to this Word ubergeek that the basic idea for the fix never occurred to me. The rule of thumb for investigating peculiar behavior in Word is always to first disable all add-ins and then (assuming the addin-free Word behaves properly) reenable them one by one to pinpoint the culprit. But since I write only VBA add-ins & not COM add-ins, I would never have thought to look at the latter. I will now, always!

"A little late" but your post still helps people today. Fixed my problem, great detective skills.

Thanks!

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techdude

+1 ... and again today.

Thanks, Grantmo! Never would have figured that out in a million years!

Almost a year later, grantmo to the rescue!
I used to just ignore this issue but figured I'd spend some time today trying to figure it out. Send to Bluetooth has caused other issues in our organisation in the past, don't know why I didn't disable it earlier!

Does MS create the plug-in or is it made by the BT OEM drivers?

Pity it still manages to cause issues in Office 2013 :/
Here I was thinking it was because the template was on the network. . .

And the gratitude keeps rollin' in, grantmo. You da man! How did you ever find this solution??!

thanks Grantmo - 2014 and this is still an issue. I'm using my laptop for a couple of weeks and don't have the issue on my PC so relieved you provided the answer - there is no way I could have worked this out or remained sane!.

This forum does not have voting, but this worked for me; so, thanks!

Omg... thank you so much! I would have never suspected that Add Ons were the source of this particular problem.

Good karma to you!

Janet