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Asked: 2026-06-14T18:32:14+00:00

I’ve been experiencing some issues when trying to manually close a Word document created

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I’ve been experiencing some issues when trying to manually close a Word document created from my VBA project (actually developed with Access 2003). Depending on the method I use, it may prompt for saving Normal.dot and then tell me that it’s already opened or being used. This is a little bit annoying, because I’m then unable to close Microsoft Word. A big waste of time.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Some frustration later, I found a little trick to solve my issue. I’ve decided to post it there because I’ve been unable to find any information about this problem on Stack Overflow.

    Here’s how it goes:

    Set WordApplication = CreateObject("Word.Application")
WordApplication.NormalTemplate.Saved = True

    Nothing really fancy here, but the second line prevents the prompt for saving Normal.dot. It does NOT actually save anything to the template, it just let MS-Word believe it’s been already saved.

    Be sure that the option to prompt for saving Normal.dot is disabled in your MS Word’s Preferences (Tools > Preferences > Save > Prompt to save Normal template). Disabling so will prevent the prompt in normal use situations. However, there might be some issue like the one above when you’re creating a document from scratch with VBA (and probably many other languages), always depending on the method you implement to create/open your document.

    Hopefully this little line will save you some more minutes of research.

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