Duplicated Documents

[rentasec]

I am attempting to complete several different flyers.
HOwever, when I make a change in one document it changes
all of the previously saved document regardless if they
are open or closed.

I have never encountered this problem before.

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi rentasec

My guess is that the problem documents are using an IncludeText field,
or something similar.

Open up one of the problem documents that keeps changing. Do Alt-F9.
That will show field codes, instead of field results. Do you see
something like { INCLUDETEXT "c:\\MyFolder\\MyFile.doc" \*
MERGEFORMAT } ?

If so, that's a field which is automatically inserting the contents of
MyFile.doc into the current document.

What you do from here depends on what you need to achieve. You can add a
\! switch to prevent the field from updating. Edit the field so it looks
like { INCLUDETEXT "c:\\MyFolder\\MyFile.doc" \! \* MERGEFORMAT }

Once you've edited the field, use F9 to update it, or ctrl-a F9 to
update all fields in the document.

But that won't get the problem document back to some earlier state. It
will just prevent it from any further updates.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word