How to suppress "Save Changes?" prompt when you close a workbook in Excel (213428)

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To use either of the following examples, follow these steps:

1. Start Excel and open a new workbook.
2. Press ALT+F11 to start the Visual Basic editor.
3. On the Insert menu, click Module.
4. Type the sample macro code into the module sheet.
5. Press ALT+F11 to return to Excel.
6. On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Macros.
7. Select the macro that you want, and then click Run.

The Saved property returns the value False if changes have been made to a workbook since it was last saved.

You can use the reserved subroutine name Auto_Close to specify a macro that should run whenever a workbook is closed. By doing this, you can control how the document is handled when the user is finished and has instructed Excel to close the document.

Example 1: Closing the Workbook Without Saving Changes

To force a workbook to close without saving any changes, type the following code in a Visual Basic module of that workbook:

Sub Auto_Close()
    ThisWorkbook.Saved = True
End Sub
				

Because the Saved property is set to True, Excel responds as though the workbook has already been saved and no changes have occurred since that last save.

The DisplayAlerts property of the program can be used for the same purpose. For example, the following macro turns DisplayAlerts off, closes the active workbook without saving changes, and then turns DisplayAlerts on again.

Sub CloseBook()
    Application.DisplayAlerts = False
    ActiveWorkbook.Close
    Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub
				

You can also use the SaveChanges argument of the Close method.

The following macro closes the workbook without saving changes:

Sub CloseBook2()
    ActiveWorkbook.Close savechanges:=False
End Sub
				

Example 2: Closing the Workbook and Saving the Changes

To force a workbook to save changes, type the following code in a Visual Basic module of that workbook:

Sub Auto_Close()
    If ThisWorkbook.Saved = False Then
        ThisWorkbook.Save
    End If
End Sub
				

This subprocedure checks to see if the file's Saved property is set to False. If so, the workbook has been changed since the last save, and those changes are saved.