MS Word Interop: Cancel (Don't Show) the 'Save Changes' Dialog on Close

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I'm using MS Interop to open a generated file for a user, allow them to edit it and then close it, after which I save it for them (it's part of a larger process). Since the user doesn't need to save the file manually I would like to cancel that pop up dialog to save the file when the user tries to close the document. The following doesn't seem to work for me in a handler for the DocumentBeforeClose event:

App.ActiveDocument.Saved = true;

This seems like it should mark the Word document as saved, but doesn't.

Anyone come across this issue?

-nomad311

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Does the event fire? The document being closed is an argument of the event handler (Sub app_DocumentBeforeClose(ByVal Doc As Document, Cancel As Boolean), so I would simply try Doc.Saved = True – Dirk Vollmar
Yes it does, I can break in the method to debug. App.ActiveDocument references to that same Doc variable, but I tried doing it directly also and still no change :( I've also attempted to call close on the Doc with Save() set to false and Quit() on the Application object also setting save to false ...And nothing stops the pop up!!!!!! – LostNomad311
Are there any other Word add-ins installed that might interfere? – Dirk Vollmar
Nope, I've only used Word for this project since I installed it. – LostNomad311
Are you sure you are not modifying the document after you set the Saved property to true? Try the following: Create a new Word document and type some text, press Alt+F11 to open the VBA editor then press Ctrl+G to display the Immediate Window. Now type ActiveDocument.Saved = True followed by return. Then close the document. The document should close without prompting you to save. – Dirk Vollmar

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I found out I was creating a chain of events by calling the SaveAs() method of the document from the DocumentBeforeClose event handler. But, I was canceling the save (intended to only stop a user save) in the DocumentBeforeSave event handler. Thus, canceling the chain ...which stops the close operation, but the 'save changes' pop-up still gets launched?!

...Thought I would spell this out in case someone else gets as cleaver as I did :)

-nomad311