Force new Excel/Word document to be saved right away, while still empty

I'm really bad about having tons of things open and getting them saved. Seeing book57 open in Excel is not uncommon for me.

Other than changing my computing habits, is there a way I can force Excel and Word to prompt me to save the blank document immediately after creating a new document? Two reasons. Meaningful filenames so I'm not trying to remember which book## I need while it's not saved yet. Also auto-save has a few quirks when a document has never been saved, which I'd like to avoid.

I'm thinking I'd have to have a default template that had a script embedded in it to open up the Save As dialog box. It's just for me, so it doesn't have to protect against someone hitting cancel.

Can anyone come up with a way to do this, perhaps the script?

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