I'm afraid I can't come up with any explanation for this. Are you sure
you're using the same shortcut every time? (And note that this will take
effect only if you start Word from the shortcut, not if you double-click on
a document to open Word.)

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"Francine" wrote in message
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Well, even now the shortcut doesn't even open the program maximized. Any
other suggestions? It's checked to run maximized but won't open maximized
every time.

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"Francine" wrote in message
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Thank you Suzanne. Today it's been opening maximized every time, until
just now! I just set the shortcut to open maximized so I hope things
will
be ok now. Also, so far it's been opening in normal view. If I have
problems again, I'll be sure to check back in here.

Thanks again.
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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You can absolutely make Word start Maximized by setting this in the
Properties of the shortcut used to start Word. As for the view and
zoom,
this is definitely problematic in Word 2003, which seems to have a mind
of
its own. Most of the time it will start in the view in which you closed
it,
but the only way to really force it to open in a specific view is with
an
AutoExec or AutoNew macro.

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"Francine" wrote in message
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Thank you. I did everything you suggested. The thing is, it was
already
set
to normal view. But still sometimes when I open Word it opens in Print
Layout.

I am also having problems opening Word itself. Sometimes it opens full
screen and sometimes it opens smaller and I have to click on the full
screen
button at the top right. I'm using Word 2003.

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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The article makes this pretty clear, I think: change the zoom, then
press
the Spacebar and Backspace, then Save. These were the last three of
the
five
steps, the first two being to find and open Normal.dot.

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"Francine" wrote in message
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Thank you Suzanne. I followed your instructions but couldn't figure
out
what
to do after I found the template (which was blank).

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm

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"Francine" wrote in message
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When I open the program the view automatically opens in the
Print
Layout
view. I want it to open in Normal view, but nothing I try works.
How
can
I
get it to open automatically in the Normal view?

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Francine