I have just bought MS Office Professional 97. I have been familiar with Word 97 for a while now and have noticed that, contrary to my previous experience with Word, my new version automatically saves every document (whether saved manually by the user or not) upon closing. I do not want this to happen and would like to be asked whether I’d like to save changes by means of the old customary dialog box which is supposed to appear after clicking the close button on the document. How do I change this setting? I haven’t been able to find it in the Options box. Thanks in advance.

I delayed responding to your question for a number of weeks while I made inquiries. This problem is probably caused by the ‘auto save’ function in Word saving the document temporarily in the C:WINDOWSTEMP directory of your computer and not asking you if you wish to save the document manually. You can disable the ‘auto save’ function by going to ‘Tools’ menu > ‘Options’ and click the ‘Save’ tab. Near the bottom of this tab, there should be ‘Allow background saves’ with a tick in the box next to it. Uncheck this box by clicking it once, followed by pressing the ‘Ok’ button.