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Thanks for sharing this, jean-Marie! Try to force Word to open the document as read-only by default
This stops Word from tracking any background changes at all.
- Right-click the document → Properties
- Check Read-only
- Click Apply → OK
- Open the document
- When closing, Word will not ask to save
Use Save As only when you actually want changes. If you want to open the document not as read-only, disable document property updates (very common cause)
Word updates document metadata even when untouched.
- Open the document
- Click File → Info
- Click Properties → Advanced Properties
- Go to the Statistics tab
- Click OK without changing anything
- Save once and close
This resets the “dirty” metadata state.
See if these help. If you need further assistance just let me know.
Best regards,
Kimberly