Do you have any of these volatile functions in your workbook?

=AREAS()
=INDEX()
=OFFSET()
=CELL()
=INDIRECT()
=ROWS()
=COLUMNS()
=NOW()
=TODAY()
=RAND()

These evaluate with each calculation. And cause excel to think your workbook
has changed.

And excel likes to recalculate workbooks created in earlier versions. Is this
the case in your situation?

Do you have any macros that run automatically that could be changing something?



crimsonkng wrote:

I am getting (what I think is) an erroneous "do you want to save your
changes?" message when I exit my .xls file (even though I didn't change any
data).

It happens ONLY after I rest the highlight on a cell in which there's a
pull-down list (data validation). Again, I merely REST the highlight on the
cell ... I don't pull the list down or choose any data. Excel is acting as
if I did change data (hence the "save changes?" exit message) but I didn't
change data. Is that how a data-validated cell is supposed to work ... that
if I just rest the highlight on the cell, that Excel thinks I changed the
data in that cell? (As long as I don't move the cell-highlight to a
data-validated cell, I don't get the save changes? message.)

More info, just in case it matters: the cell (B93) is a merged cell
(B93:F93). When I go to data validation, I get a message that says: "the
selection contains some cells that do not contain Data Validation settings.
Do you want to extend data validation to these cells?" I answer "yes," and
the form comes up fine, with the proper data validation. But could this have
something to do with the erroneous exit message?

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Dave Peterson