[AccessD] Open Word Document

Foote, Chris Chris.Foote at uk.thalesgroup.com
Fri Nov 7 06:42:26 CST 2003


Virginia,

if your users all have the same default printer I don't think this would
happen!

Chris F

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hollis,Virginia [mailto:HollisVJ at pgdp.usec.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 12:19 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Open Word Document
> 
> 
> Guess there is no way to stop this from occurring. Something 
> they will have
> to live with I guess when they view the Word file.
> 
> Virginia
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Foote, Chris [mailto:Chris.Foote at uk.thalesgroup.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 3:35 AM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Open Word Document
> 
> 
> Bit late into this topic - sorry.
> 
> I think this is caused by Word (and probably other apps.) 
> changing docs to
> use your default printer. If you open a doc created or 
> modified by someone
> else who has a different default printer, the app. has to 
> reformat it. But
> if you are opening and close Word docs "all day long" it does 
> not have to
> change the printer setting more than once.
> 
> HTH - Chris Foote
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bryan Carbonnell [mailto:carbonnb at sympatico.ca]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:21 PM
> > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Open Word Document
> > 
> > 
> > On 5 Nov 2003 at 17:07, Ron  Allen wrote:
> > 
> > > It is wanting to save because the last opened date has 
> > > changed, so it sees the document as having been changed. 
> > > Annoying, huh?
> > 
> > Nope. I don't think that this is the reason. I open and close Word 
> > docs all day long and only have the Save prompt show up when I 
> > actually change the doc or there are fields in the doc that get 
> > updated, and I have Word set to update all fields when it opens and 
> > prints.
> > 
> > Docs without fields don't have the prompt for me.
> > 
> > --
> > Bryan Carbonnell
> > 
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