Article ID: 213634
Article Last Modified on 1/24/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 95a
- Microsoft Excel 2001 for Mac
- Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh
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SUMMARY
You can determine if changes have been made to a workbook by checking the Saved property of the workbook. The Saved property returns a True or False value depending on whether changes have been made to the workbook. Note that it is possible to set the Saved property to True or False. The "More Information" section of this article contains sample macros that demonstrate the use of the Saved property.
Various conditions in your worksheet, such as the presence of volatile functions, may affect the Saved property. For additional information about these conditions, please click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
274500 XL: "Save Changes in <Bookname>" Prompt Even If No Changes Made
MORE INFORMATION
Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language that is being demonstrated and with the tools that are used to create and to debug procedures. Microsoft support engineers can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific requirements.
Example 1: Macro to Display Message If Active Workbook Has Unsaved Changes
Sub TestForUnsavedChanges()
If ActiveWorkbook.Saved = False Then
MsgBox "This workbook contains unsaved changes."
End If
End Sub
Example 2: Macro to Close Workbook and Discard Changes
This macro closes the workbook that contains the sample code and discards any changes to the workbook by setting the Saved property to True:
Sub CloseWithoutChanges()
ThisWorkbook.Saved = True
ThisWorkbook.Close
End Sub
Example 3: Another Macro to Close Workbook and Discard Changes
Sub CloseWithoutChanges()
ThisWorkbook.Close SaveChanges:=False
End Sub
REFERENCES
For more information about how to use the sample code in this article, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles
For additional information about getting help with Visual Basic forApplications, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
226118 OFF2000: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications
163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications
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