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"would you like to keep the last item you copied. If so, then it may take a bit longer to exit" - how to remove this prompt in word 2013?

Anonymous
2014-09-05T20:09:10+00:00

this is really irritating! I was the one who closed the document and also confirmed it by saying I don't want to save anything. now you ask me this also.

word 2013 will next ask me for an affidavit to close it?

 someone please tell me how to remove this stupid prompt!

 thank you very much 

PS - attaching a screenshot just to be clear what I am talking about

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  1. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 322.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-09-13T22:42:26+00:00

    In the Visual Basic Editor, click on the Normal item in the Project Explorer pane and then from the Insert menu, click on UserForm.  The Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library will then automatically be added to the list of References.

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  1. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 322.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-09-05T22:06:38+00:00

    If you create the following macro in the Normal.dotm template or an add-in, that message will no longer appear

    Sub FileClose()

    Dim MyData   As DataObject

    Set MyData = New DataObject

    MyData.SetText ""

    MyData.PutInClipboard

    ActiveDocument.Close

    End Sub

    It replaces the contents of the clipboard with a null string and then closes the document when you use File>Close.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-06-29T10:25:01+00:00

    I went weeks with my new windows 10 computer with Office 2016 Outlook 2016 without this message even though I copy email messages to save them elsewhere all the time. Then all of the sudden this cray message come when stopping me from closing Outlook. WHY? I'm so tired of all theses surprises. I'm to the point I'm apprehensive to even use my windows 10 computer. I'm so tired of updates and patches that do more harm than good. Now here I am again with a message comes out from nowhere every time I try to close Outlook and as with Microsoft another added click to do a simple task like close an application. My message reads**"Do you want to be able to paste the last item you copied from Microsoft Outlook after exiting?"**Why all the sudden after weeks of using Outlook and doing more nor less than I have been doing does this message pop up while to simply close Outlook? Oh, now reading ways to end such a message I must venture into VB and add macros? REALLY? Has this become this insane? We window 10 and Office 2016 users spend most of our time searching for help in Google only to find out you need to do registry hacking and VB macros. Are you kidding? this is insane and it is not what the user should have to contend with by doing nothing more than using the product as was intended. What the hell has happen to Microsoft and its core products? why are we having to do any of this? You took the fun and the desire totally out of using a PC. I mean really do you think this is fun? Certainly is NOT necessary!

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-09-22T19:18:17+00:00

    Someone at Microsoft needs to make a simple option in Word to remove this annoying "would you like to keep the last item copied in your clipboard" message.

    What a mistake. It makes the program so much more annoying to have to see that message every time I close.

    The beta testers didnt catch this???

    Now we need to write a macro to get rid of it???

    Sounds like a joke, almost.

    Anyone from Microsoft listening?

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  3. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-09-06T23:17:19+00:00

    Although Doug's macro will undoubtedly do what you want, if this message is the current version of "You have placed a large amount of text on the Clipboard.  Do you want this text to be available to other applications after you quit Word?" then it might suffice, after copying a large amount of text, picture, whatever, to make sure to copy a single character before quitting Word.

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