Unprotected Word Document is Changed?

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When I unprotect a Word (2003) form document and then reprotect it (without
having made any changes at all) - closing the document causes the "Do you
want to save the changes to ......" message to appear.

Is it possible to unprotect / protect a Word document without it being
mysteriously changed by Word (n.b. there are no changes to "Undo")?

I am trying to write a VBA Macro to unprotect the document, interrogate the
status of cell within a table and then, optionally, reprotect the document
without changing it: Can this be done?

All offers of help will be very gratefully received.

RPJ
 
Turning protection on or off is itself a change. There's been no
change in the content of the document.
 
Yes and no. Opening the document and unprotecting it is seen as a change so
you cannot do that without Word seeing that as a change. However you can
close the document again without saving it after interrogating it e.g.

ActiveDocument.Close WdDoNotSaveChanges

You don't need to unprotect the document to read the content of a form
field.

Take a look at the examples at
http://www.gmayor.com/ExtractDataFromForms.htm


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Gentlemen,

Thank you both very much for your incredibly swift responses.

I think the answer to my question is "NO" because:
a) it is not possible to "undo" the changes in status of the document
(from protected to unprotected and back again)
b) I do not wish to close the document in my Macro - but neither do I
want the user to receive the "save changes?" message if they should
chose to manually close the document at this point.

HoHum

Thanks again,

RPJ
 
If you don't want to close the document then mark it as saved after you have
finished processing it with your macro eg

ActiveDocument.Saved = True

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