Bob, Suzanne,Graham,
Thanks for your responses.
I have been using the word 2000 untill three months back :-).
Now I have 2003.
Your solution is helpful but I am afraid I failed to explain the issue.

I open three documents by double clicking them .
Then I minimize all of them.
Now I open a fourth word document by double clicking it.

Here are three things that I expect as result of that action

1. I expect the document to be open in its own window.
2. I also expect this window to be active window.
3. Finally I expect all the other three minimized ones to stay minimized.

The first two are as expected but the third one is not.
While opening the fourth document the word is restoring the third document
window
then it is invoking another window with fourth one.

Put it simply I see that both the third and fourth ones restored back to the
desktop.
And fourth one is being the active one.

I suspect that the file association has a role in this.
I fixed the issue by following Suzanne's help ( bur running winword /r).
Now the file association's are back.

The word for some reason invokes the last minimized one then opens the
current one.

What should be the default action ?
Is it "New " or "Open"


Is this the right action for Open
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi GBP,

I'm not entirely clear if you're still also using Word 2000 or only Word 2003 at this point. You can add the 2003 behavior to Word
2000 through the use of an add in
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/SDIMDI.htm

In Word 2003 on Windows XP you have a couple of options. If you want only a single Word 'icon' on the Windows Taskbar even with the
'Windows in Taskbar option' turned on in Word 2003 you can 'hide' the separate icons, (actually group them) by setting the taskbar
options for Windows XP (right click on the 'Start button' and choose properties), or with the 'Windows in Taskbar' option turned off
you can use the Word Windows menu to switch between open documents, and each document has its own minimize/restore icon set within
the single Word 'frame' (pretty much the same as Word 97 at that point).

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" wrote in message ...
If I uncheck "windows in the taskbar" all the windows open in one single
window.
I would like to keep that option. I am refering to Office 2000. Where you
open each word file in a separate window and minimize it. In Office 2003 when
I open a document the following is happening
1.it restores a minimized word document
2.then invokes a new word window
3.the document is openend in the new word window.
4. Now I have two word documents that are visible on the desktop.

I wanted only the second one to be on my screen.
Is there a work around
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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