BUG: VSS History Not Updated for Modified Word Documents

• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, 32-bit, for Windows 6.0, used with:
  • Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
  • Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

The file history is not updated when a Word document is checked out, modified, and checked into Visual SourceSafe.

RESOLUTION

To work around the problem, you can do either of the following:

• From the Word Tools menu, select Options, and click the Save tab. Clear the Allow Fast Saves option. Click OK.
  
  -or-



• From the Visual SourceSafe Tools menu, select Options, and click the General tab. Make sure Check-In unchanged files is set to Check In.
  
  -or-



• From the Visual SourceSafe, Tools menu, select Options, and click the Local Files tab. Make sure Compare files by: is set to anything other than Checksum.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. From the Visual SourceSafe Tools menu, select Options. On the General tab, set Check-In unchanged files to Undo Check Out. On the Local Files tab, set Compare files by: to Checksum.



2. Add a Word document to a project in Visual SourceSafe.



3. Check out the Word document and specify a working folder if necessary.



4. Open the document in Word.



5. From the Word Tools menu, select Options, and click the Save tab when the Options dialog box appears.



6. Select the Allow Fast Saves option if it is cleared, and click OK.



7. Make changes to the document.



8. Save the document by going to the File menu and clicking Save.



9. Close the document in Word.



10. Go the Visual SourceSafe Explorer and check in the Word document.



11. Right-click the Word document and select the Show History option. The history will display one version. This is the version created when the file was added to Visual SourceSafe.

REFERENCES

For more information, see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q192480 WD97: Frequently Asked Questions About "Allow Fast Saves

Q71999 WD97: How to Disable the FastSave Option in Word for Windows

Additional query words: version fast save checksum

Keywords : kbinterop wordnt word97 ntword kbSSafe600bug
Version : WINDOWS:2000,6.0,97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug