>>Trying to Google that, most of the hits seem to be complaints that PDF output doesn't look the same as the source Word doc. However at least one other person had this happen, in their case the document did actually change:
https://superuser.com/questions/738359/word-document-changes-after-saving-as-pdf . There was no resolution to that one.
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>There could be some of that but I wonder why the output could cause a trigger for Word to think the Word document itself changes. IAC, I never save as there is simply no change which was applied.
You could save the "changed" document to another name, then compare the two documents to see if there actually are any differences:
https://www.google.ca/search?q=compare+2+word+documents
Regards. Al
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