Microsoft KB Archive/216391

= BUG: VSS History Not Updated for Modified Word Documents =

Article ID: 216391

Article Last Modified on 10/15/2002

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APPLIES TO

 Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition, when used with:  Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

 Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition 

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This article was previously published under Q216391



SYMPTOMS
The file history is not updated when a Word document is checked out, modified, and checked into Visual SourceSafe.



RESOLUTION
To work around the problem, you can do either of the following:


 * From the Word Tools menu, select Options, and click the Save tab. Clear the Allow Fast Saves option. Click OK.

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 * From the Visual SourceSafe Tools menu, select Options, and click the General tab. Make sure Check-In unchanged files is set to Check In.

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 * From the Visual SourceSafe, Tools menu, select Options, and click the Local Files tab. Make sure Compare files by: is set to anything other than Checksum.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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Steps to Reproduce Behavior



 * 1) From the Visual SourceSafe Tools menu, select Options. On the General tab, set Check-In unchanged files to Undo Check Out. On the Local Files tab, set Compare files by: to Checksum.
 * 2) Add a Word document to a project in Visual SourceSafe.
 * 3) Check out the Word document and specify a working folder if necessary.
 * 4) Open the document in Word.
 * 5) From the Word Tools menu, select Options, and click the Save tab when the Options dialog box appears.
 * 6) Select the Allow Fast Saves option if it is cleared, and click OK.
 * 7) Make changes to the document.
 * 8) Save the document by going to the File menu and clicking Save.
 * 9) Close the document in Word.
 * 10) Go the Visual SourceSafe Explorer and check in the Word document.
 * 11) Right-click the Word document and select the Show History option. The history will display one version. This is the version created when the file was added to Visual SourceSafe.

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