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Hi Sal:
If you have certain worksheet functions in your workbook (examples are
TODAY, NOW, OFFSET), they will be recalculated and even if there is no
change, Excel will present the Save Changes dialog.
....
Vasant

hth,

Doug

"crimsonkng" wrote in message
...
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?