Use Saved property to determine if a workbook has changed

• Applies to:

  Microsoft Excel

Summary

You can determine if changes have been made to a workbook by checking the Saved property of the workbook. The Saved property returns a True or False value depending on whether changes have been made to the workbook.

Note

It is possible to set the Saved property to True or False. The "More Information" section of this article contains sample macros that demonstrate the use of the Saved property.

Various conditions in your worksheet, such as the presence of volatile functions, may affect the Saved property.

More information

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Example 1: Macro to Display Message If Active Workbook Has Unsaved Changes

Sub TestForUnsavedChanges()
    If ActiveWorkbook.Saved = False Then
        MsgBox "This workbook contains unsaved changes."
    End If
End Sub

Example 2: Macro to Close Workbook and Discard Changes

This macro closes the workbook that contains the sample code and discards any changes to the workbook by setting the Saved property to True:

Sub CloseWithoutChanges()
    ThisWorkbook.Saved = True
    ThisWorkbook.Close
End Sub

Example 3: Another Macro to Close Workbook and Discard Changes

Sub CloseWithoutChanges()
    ThisWorkbook.Close SaveChanges:=False
End Sub

References

For more information about how to use the sample code in this article, see How to run sample code from Knowledge Base articles in Office 2000.