Word question
 

New computer, Windows XP Pro.

With this new machine, when I close documents that I have opened to view but did not change in anyway will cause me to be asked "do you want to save changes?" It's a bit annoying and time wasting. Any ideas on why this is happening?

Thanks for any help in advance!

One possibility is that your new computer has a newer release of Word than was used to make the files you are opening just to read (I'm assuming these are files you created on your old machine and copied onto the new machine). If this is the case, the new machine is reading in your old files as being derived from an old version of Word, and it's essentially asking you if you want to save them as being compatible with your new version of Word. New versions of many programs (Excel, Illustrator, etc.) often cause this issue for me. If this is what's happening, saying yes to a 'save changes' should prevent the message from occurring next time that particular file is opened.

Smart Tags
 

I have had this happen to me with Word (if only I didn't have to use it :)) I am assuming you have a new version of Office XP. My version is old (2002) running on Windows XP. I fixed this by disabling the Smart Tags in Word. Try this and see if this works for you:

1. Go to Tools, Auto Correct Options
2. Click the Smart Tags tab at the top of the dialog box.
3. Clear the box that says Label text with smart tags

Hope that helps.

I'd check clarence5ybr's suggestion if you now have Word 2007. Its as-installed default is to save in the new XML-based .docx format, not Word 97-2003 .doc format. Try changing the default Save format and see if it keeps doing this.

Clarence and Efrem have it, IMO. Another very good reason to set .doc as default; if you Email your documents, virtually NO ONE is going to be able to use a .docx file!Set .doc as default, it makes life muuuch easier.

One other thought
 

Do you have something that automatically updates everytime you open the document - for example, is there a date or revision number that updates automatically?

Good luck.

This is my guess also. I get this in Excel more than Word, (I think because of some quirky formulas). More info:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816473/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289111/en-us

I am using the Microsoft Office Suite that came with my last computer: 2002 SP3.

I will try the suggestions given here and get back with results.

Thanks for the generous help thus far!

Is this a burned CD or an MS OEM copy? Macro virii will do that as well.

MS OEM that came with my olden stolen machine. Thinkpads, both the old and the new.