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

Question

Hi,

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

Answer 1

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