XL: Prompt to Save Changed Workbook Fails to Appear (213513)

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, do either of the following:

• Click Save on the File menu before you click Close on the File menu or click the Close button (the box with the "X" in it) at the upper-right corner of the workbook window.
  
  -or-
  
  
• Add a line of Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications code in the macro to set the Saved property to False after the line that sets the Caption property of the workbook window.

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1. Start Excel and create a new workbook.
2. Press ALT+F11 to open the Visual Basic Editor.
3. On the Insert menu, click Module.
4. Type the following into the new module:

         Sub Caption_Macro()
   
               '
               'More code here.
               '
   
               'Changes the Caption property of the first window
               Windows(1).Caption = "Window 1"
   
               'Setting that the workbook has changed.
               ActiveWorkbook.Saved = False
   
               '
               'More code here.
               '
   
   
         End Sub
   						

5. Switch to Excel (press ALT+F11).
6. On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and click Macros. Click Caption_macro and click Run.
7. On the File menu, click Close.

You receive a message that prompts you to save the workbook.