SaveAs2 Method halts on documents with comments

Question

The SaveAs2 Method will halt and bring up a user prompt if the document being saved has comments.  

1. Is there a way to eliminate this prompt?
2. SaveAs2 has a field called Lockcomments?   What does it mean to Lock Comments?

Answer 1

I have windows 7 and Office 2013 SP1.  I appreciate your attempt at answering the question.   I re-ran the test and find that my macro will indeed stop and prompt after every save attempt after a document gets a comment added to with: " Then document being saved contains comments. Continue with save?"  You have three options: 1)  Tell Me More which links to a web page that sorry  don't have anything, 2) Ok and 3) cancel.    Even if the user is paying attention and responds each time this occurs the macro will run minutes slower.   I thought the reason for the prompt was a change due to SP1 but when checking with another user I discovered there is a options, trust, privacy setting that can be checked that states "Warn before printing, saving or sending a file that contains tracked changes or comments" 

It appears to be a global setting and not a per document setting.    I can find no way to turn it off from a macro and I would prefer not to do this as if the macro is ever not completed it will like leave this feature off.   The only thing I can think of doing is to look for comments and delete them but I don't want the aditional time penalty as I am already handling 600 small documents (~ paragraph each).  

Thanks for the definition of lock comments.  Someone should change the description to Lock Comments to restricts the document to only allowing comments to be added or edited  and no editing of the document itself instead of "lock the document for comments"

Answer 2

The SaveAs2 Method will halt and bring up a user prompt if the document being saved has comments.  

1. Is there a way to eliminate this prompt?
2. SaveAs2 has a field called Lockcomments?   What does it mean to Lock Comments?

1. I tested it on Word 2010 and 2013 and SaveAs2 does not bring up a user prompt. My test included just providing the filename and also locking comments. You will have to be more specific about what you are including in the SaveAs2 properties and their values.
2. Regarding Lockcomments, it is part of the Revisions method and if you set the value on the save to True then only comments are allowed to be added to the document. Of course to make this feature really work, you must also include a Write Password in the save settings. If you don't include a write password then the editing lockout can be easily overridden.