No "Save prompt" on closing Excel

They say it's only easy if you know the answer, but I've never come across this before...

Can anyone help me with this probably easy function!

I'm running Excel 2010, and when I click on the X button to close the application, it automatically closes without giving me a save prompt beforehand!!! I normally save prior, but sods law, on the one occasion I don't, then I've lost the changes to the workbook as it didn't prompt me to save changes prior to closing!

Can anyone help in getting this function back on? (It did work in the past, but I can't for the life of me think what I've done to disable it!)

Many thanks in advance

Kev.

Hi

I experienced exactly the same problem. I didn't install any Excel Addon; could it be a virus?
I read that you could disable/suppress this feature (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/213428):

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The Saved property returns the value False if changes have been made to a workbook since it was last saved.

You can use the reserved subroutine name "Auto_Close" to specify a macro that should run whenever a workbook is closed. By doing this, you can control how the document is handled when the user is finished and has instructed Excel to close the document.
Example 1: Close the workbook without saving changes

To force a workbook to close without saving any changes, type the following code in a Visual Basic module of that workbook:

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Because the Saved property is set to True, Excel responds as though the workbook has already been saved and no changes have occurred since that last save.

The DisplayAlerts property of the program can be used for the same purpose. For example, the following macro turns DisplayAlerts off, closes the active workbook without saving changes, and then turns DisplayAlerts on again.

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You can also use the SaveChanges argument of the Close method.

The following macro closes the workbook without saving changes:

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This subprocedure checks to see if the file's Saved property is set to False. If so, the workbook has been changed since the last save, and those changes are saved.

Have you found a solution yet ?

I tried rebooting, but the problem persists.

Regards

lotter_g,

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