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Preventing document opening at startup
Is there a way to prevent having a new document opened at startup. I would
rather start Word and then clcik the New button or select New off the file menu. Often I am going to open an existing document, so when I start Word, I have to cancel the new document that was opened and then open the one I want to update. You can do this in Excel with /e switch when executing the .EXE but that does not seem to work in Word |
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Preventing document opening at startup
"GregNga" wrote in message
... Is there a way to prevent having a new document opened at startup. I would rather start Word and then clcik the New button or select New off the file menu. Often I am going to open an existing document, so when I start Word, I have to cancel the new document that was opened and then open the one I want to update. You can do this in Excel with /e switch when executing the .EXE but that does not seem to work in Word For Word, use the /n switch. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx |
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On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:35:59 -0500, "Beth Melton" wrote:
"GregNga" wrote in message ... Is there a way to prevent having a new document opened at startup. I would rather start Word and then clcik the New button or select New off the file menu. Often I am going to open an existing document, so when I start Word, I have to cancel the new document that was opened and then open the one I want to update. You can do this in Excel with /e switch when executing the .EXE but that does not seem to work in Word For Word, use the /n switch. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx Really, you don't need to do this. If you open Word with the default blank document and immediately open any existing document, the blank document automatically closes. You don't have to "cancel" the blank document first. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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That will work for me. I never noticed that before
"Jay Freedman" wrote: On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:35:59 -0500, "Beth Melton" wrote: "GregNga" wrote in message ... Is there a way to prevent having a new document opened at startup. I would rather start Word and then clcik the New button or select New off the file menu. Often I am going to open an existing document, so when I start Word, I have to cancel the new document that was opened and then open the one I want to update. You can do this in Excel with /e switch when executing the .EXE but that does not seem to work in Word For Word, use the /n switch. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx Really, you don't need to do this. If you open Word with the default blank document and immediately open any existing document, the blank document automatically closes. You don't have to "cancel" the blank document first. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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If that works for you then the same is true for Excel and PowerPoint too.
:-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx "GregNga" wrote in message ... That will work for me. I never noticed that before "Jay Freedman" wrote: Really, you don't need to do this. If you open Word with the default blank document and immediately open any existing document, the blank document automatically closes. You don't have to "cancel" the blank document first. |
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Preventing document opening at startup
That doesn't work for me. Every time I open Word, the new document opens. I
then open the document I want. However, when I close the document I wanted, the new document that opened when I started up Word is still there and I have to close it and it asks if I want to save it before it will shut down. Extremely annoying "Beth Melton" wrote: If that works for you then the same is true for Excel and PowerPoint too. :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx "GregNga" wrote in message ... That will work for me. I never noticed that before "Jay Freedman" wrote: Really, you don't need to do this. If you open Word with the default blank document and immediately open any existing document, the blank document automatically closes. You don't have to "cancel" the blank document first. |
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