Any Office 2019 Word Gurus Here? “Save As” Causing Original File To Be Edited

Soldato
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Bizarre Office 2019 Word issue that started happening a month ago and we only just noticed. PC running latest Windows 10 build.

Request for payment form is made as a .docx with the filename being “#1234” where this is the next vacant booking number.

When full payment is received .docx file “#1234” is edited to become an invoice showing amount paid etc. and saved as “#5678” where this is the next vacant invoice number.

The problem is that changes to “#5678” are being copied into “#1234”, which must not happen as this has to be kept intact for years for tax purposes.

What I’ve also seen is Word displays “^Nxxxx” at the very top of screen when editing a file with name in format “#xxxx.docx”.

All help gratefully received.
 
Associate
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My guess is you have autosave turned on, if thats the case you need to create the new file first, then make the changes or turn off autosave (but remember to save manually more often to compensate).
 
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