Alart pop-up before closing a document withouit saving, no more?

Since Lion, Pages no longer pops up the alart message when you try to close a document withouit saving; it just saves without asking. I find this quite annoying.
I save small changes that I make to a document quite frequently. If I close a document by accident, thereby saving it, then the content of the document and that of the auto back-up become almost identical. That means the back-up is utterly useless. Nor can I "undo" the changes as I lose all the edit history by closing the document.
Is there any way to bring back the old alart pop-up?

Dale Gillard wrote:
If you delete a document you cannot view it's "backup" (aka a copy of it in Versions).
Hello Dale
This is why I wrote the set of scripts available in my iDisk (address below).
Download :
For_iWork:about_versions.zip
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 29 septembre 2011 15:46:34
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0
My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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