WD: How to Turn Off the Menu Bar Close Window Button

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1. On the Tools menu, click Macro, and then click Macros (shortcut keys ALT+F8).
2. In the Macro name box, type "DocClose" (without the quotation marks), and then click Create. The Visual Basic Editor window opens, displaying the following code:

   Sub DocClose()
      '
      ' DocClose Macro
      ' Prompts to save the document and then closes the active window
      '
      WordBasic.DocClose
   End Sub
   					

3. Type an apostrophe (') at the beginning of each command line in the macro, which will remark them out, as in the line below.

     'WordBasic.DocClose
   						

4. Press ALT+F4 to close the Visual Basic Editor. You have now turned off the DocClose command in Word.

Repeat the above steps for the other commands (listed in the "Symptoms" section) that you want to turn off.

To return to the default Word functionality, you must delete the name of the function you turned off on the menu bar in the Macros dialog box.