Turn off ‘Save?’ Prompt upon document close (2003 SP 3)

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To quickly close a document, I right-click their taskbar instance and choose Close. How can I turn off the ‘Save First?’ confirmation question?

Can I just do this for Word, or would it affect all Office programs?

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If a document has been modified since it was last saved, Word will always ask you whether you want to save it before closing it. You can create a custom toolbar button and/or keyboard shortcut to close a document without saving it if you want to live dangerously (I wouldn’t recommend it), but as far as I know you can’t suppress the prompt when you close a document from the Windows taskbar.

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I cannot state too strongly the caution which Hans offered. However if you are determined to proceed, the following code placed in your Normal template will do the dirty deed.

Public Sub AutoClose()
ActiveDocument.Saved = True
End Sub

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But that would suppress the Save prompt whichever way you close a document, whether from within Word or from the taskbar. That is *far* too dangerous!

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Fully agreed.

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I wrote two short macros to help me in closing documents quickly.

Public Sub CloseAllTakeNoPrisoners()
    Dim doc As Document
    For Each doc In Application.Documents
        doc.Close savechanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
    Next doc
    If Documents.Count > 0 Then
        Documents.Close savechanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
    Else
    End If
End Sub

and

Sub quitter()
    CloseAllTakeNoPrisoners
    Application.Quit
End Sub

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