If the workbook is actually changed, then not sure you can avoid it.

Perhaps this is only the problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289111/en-us
In Excel 2003 and in Excel 2002, you are prompted to save the changes when
no changes were made

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Markus Obermayer" wrote:

It occurs very often that I open an Excel sheet and do not change anything in that sheet.
Then (after viewing some content) I want close it again. But a message dialog pops up asking me if
I want to save the changes.

I guess that this is the result of embedded macros.

However this is not intuitive and not user friendly.

How do I avoid these kind of popups when no changes took place ?

Markus