Microsoft Office For Mac Os X 10.8.2
The prompt, itself, is not an 'error', it's an important asset which allows the user to determine whether certain types of changes [Style modifications, AutoText Items, etc.] are retained when you Quit the program. If it's appearing every time you quit, though, it could be indicative of other problems. It sounds like you may have permissions errors on your Mac. If you choose 'Yes' are those prompts followed by an additional notification that the changes cannot be saved? Word cannot function without a Normal.dotm -- if one doesn't exist when you launch Word the program creates a new one, but it doesn't get written to disk until you Quit the program. Gmail email client for mac computer. It must be stored in the location Phillip guided you to, so if there isn't one there something is preventing it from being written to disk. I'd suggest that you first confirm that Office 2011 is fully updated [14.2.5] then run Disk Utility to repair disk permissions on your HD & restart your Mac.
If you continue to get the notice & still have no Normal.dotm in that locations after you launch/Quit the program I'd suggest you also check individual User Read/Write permissions for each folder in that path. Please mark HELPFUL or ANSWERED as appropriate to keep list as clean as possible ☺ Regards, Bob J.
Microsoft has outlined a few outstanding conflicts with various versions of Office and OS X 10.7 Lion that may be good to keep in mind before upgrading, if you regularly use Office on your Mac. Mouse pointers for windows 7.