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Old 06-18-2020, 12:46 PM
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Even though I have not changed the contents of the document since hitting Ctrl+S, after I exported the document to PDF. I am confronted with "Want to save your changes...?"
Earlier it was working fine (it was not asking to save the file again once i save it as PDF), it started 2 days back.Not sure what setting got changed.
Please help?
I don't want to see that save changes pop-up second time.
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Old 06-18-2020, 12:48 PM
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This is how Word behaves. It sees a change in the file even if none is apparently made.

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Old 06-21-2020, 03:26 AM
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As Charles wrote, Word seeing documents as "modified" happens a lot. It may happen less often if you turn off the option to automatically update fields on print (yes, to Word, saving as PDF resembles "printing").
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Old 06-21-2020, 11:08 AM
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Thank you for your response. Can you please let me know from where I can change this setting?
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Old 06-21-2020, 04:24 PM
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The setting for updating fields before printing is under File > Options > Display


However, my Word has this unchecked and I still get "Do you want to save changes" when doing some things like saving as pdf that should not trigger te warning.
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