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Subject:Re: Printing From WORD From:"Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:13:02 -0500
Michael,
Maybe.
If you are working inside a document management system and "date printed" is a trigger for versioning, then the answer is No. You can choose not to resave the document, but that would probably run you afoul of company policy.
Otherwise, you can change the date field to SAVEDATE, and it will only prompt you to save the document if you have made changes. Alternatively, you can just ignore the message and not save the new version.
The other thing you may need to watch out for is that Word thinks you are changing the document if you change the default printer. So if the document was created on a different system and you open it on your system, Word may decide the document has changed for that reason alone.
Dick
"Webster Michael (ext2wmw)" <ext2wmw -at- ups -dot- com> wrote:
>
>After printing a saved Word 97 document, and having made NO changes to the
>document, Word will prompt you to save current changes made to the
>document. Again, having made no changes, following the prompt and saving
>the document again creates a new version based on the new print date. Is
>there any way to avoid this?
>>
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