I occasionally get a message  while attempting to close a word document: Changes have been made that  effect the global template.dot. DO you want to save thee changes." What have I done to effect this and  what s hold I reply? Thanks

Hi
you must have opened a new document, so you have used one of Office's templates. I assume that you have not saved the document you have written using Save As, and given it a title, so Office wonders if you want to modify its template.

The answer is to ensure that you save any document you write as .doc (or .xls if it is a spreadsheet, or .pps if a Power Point presentation).

You will notice that it is showing the file extension as .dot (if a Word document) which is the template - so what I am saying is alter this when you save your document, by using the lower drop-down box.

Hope this is clear ?