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Open without a blank document?
Word 2003, Win XP Pro SP2
Seems to me with Word 97 there was some option, when opening Word directly, to have it _not_ start with a blank document. Then when I did FileNew and selected a template I'd have just one Word doc open, he new one I was creating. But I can't find that option in Word 2003. And since I have "Show windows in Taskbar" set I have a taskbar spot for the unneeded empty document and a second one for the document I'm creating. (I want to keep "Show windows in Taskbar" for the times when I'm actually working on more than one document at a time.) I see the /n switch in Help for the command line, but is there any option setting? -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/ |
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From the help file under Customize how Word StartsStartup Switches
/n Start a new instance of Word with no document open. Documents opened in each instance of Word will not appear as choices in the Window menu of other instances. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Stan Brown" wrote in message ... Word 2003, Win XP Pro SP2 Seems to me with Word 97 there was some option, when opening Word directly, to have it _not_ start with a blank document. Then when I did FileNew and selected a template I'd have just one Word doc open, he new one I was creating. But I can't find that option in Word 2003. And since I have "Show windows in Taskbar" set I have a taskbar spot for the unneeded empty document and a second one for the document I'm creating. (I want to keep "Show windows in Taskbar" for the times when I'm actually working on more than one document at a time.) I see the /n switch in Help for the command line, but is there any option setting? -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/ |
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Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:47:49 +0100 from Doug Robbins - Word MVP
: From the help file under Customize how Word StartsStartup Switches /n Start a new instance of Word with no document open. I don't mean to seem ungrateful, but I pointed that out in my query. My question was how to set an option in Word to do that without the command switch. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/ |
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I guess I did not read down that far.
You can create an Autoexec () macro in the Normal.dot template or in an Addin (a template that you save in the Word Startup directory that contains the code ActiveDocument.Close wdDoNotSaveChanges -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:47:49 +0100 from Doug Robbins - Word MVP : From the help file under Customize how Word StartsStartup Switches /n Start a new instance of Word with no document open. I don't mean to seem ungrateful, but I pointed that out in my query. My question was how to set an option in Word to do that without the command switch. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/ |
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Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:31:32 +0100 from Doug Robbins - Word MVP
: "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:47:49 +0100 from Doug Robbins - Word MVP : From the help file under Customize how Word StartsStartup Switches /n Start a new instance of Word with no document open. I don't mean to seem ungrateful, but I pointed that out in my query. My question was how to set an option in Word to do that without the command switch. I guess I did not read down that far. You can create an Autoexec () macro in the Normal.dot template or in an Addin (a template that you save in the Word Startup directory that contains the code ActiveDocument.Close wdDoNotSaveChanges Thanks -- I hadn't thought of that. But won't that make it impossible to open any existing Word documents by double-clicking on them? Since you haven't answered about an option, I'll infer that means there isn't one. I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet and create a shortcut with /n. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/ |
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Holding down the shift key will prevent an auto macro from running.
-- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:31:32 +0100 from Doug Robbins - Word MVP : "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:47:49 +0100 from Doug Robbins - Word MVP : From the help file under Customize how Word StartsStartup Switches /n Start a new instance of Word with no document open. I don't mean to seem ungrateful, but I pointed that out in my query. My question was how to set an option in Word to do that without the command switch. I guess I did not read down that far. You can create an Autoexec () macro in the Normal.dot template or in an Addin (a template that you save in the Word Startup directory that contains the code ActiveDocument.Close wdDoNotSaveChanges Thanks -- I hadn't thought of that. But won't that make it impossible to open any existing Word documents by double-clicking on them? Since you haven't answered about an option, I'll infer that means there isn't one. I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet and create a shortcut with /n. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/ |
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