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Extra Document1 when Opening Outlook Attachments
Hi,
When MS-Word is not open, and I double-click a Word attachment in Outlook to open it, MS-Word opens, and I have an empty Document1 plus the Word attachment open. Is there a way to eliminate the empty Document1 so only the attachment is open? TIA Marie |
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One more observation - this doesn't just happen with Outlook attachments.
The extra Document1 appears if Word is closed, and I double-click a document saved on my desktop as well. Word then opens, and I am left with a Document1 plus the document saved on my desktop. I would like to eliminate the Document1. This is Word 2003/Outlook 2003/Windows XP environment. The extra Document1 does not appear on our Word 2000/Outlook 2000/Windows 2000 environment. TIA again. Marie "MarieJ" wrote: Hi, When MS-Word is not open, and I double-click a Word attachment in Outlook to open it, MS-Word opens, and I have an empty Document1 plus the Word attachment open. Is there a way to eliminate the empty Document1 so only the attachment is open? TIA Marie |
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It sounds like your Word file association is missing the /n switch
which suppresses a new document when you double-click a document to open it outside the Word application.. Rather than trying to manually edit it you can re-create the file associations. Go to Start/Run and run: winword /r Note the space before the forward slash. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "MarieJ" wrote in message ... One more observation - this doesn't just happen with Outlook attachments. The extra Document1 appears if Word is closed, and I double-click a document saved on my desktop as well. Word then opens, and I am left with a Document1 plus the document saved on my desktop. I would like to eliminate the Document1. This is Word 2003/Outlook 2003/Windows XP environment. The extra Document1 does not appear on our Word 2000/Outlook 2000/Windows 2000 environment. TIA again. Marie "MarieJ" wrote: Hi, When MS-Word is not open, and I double-click a Word attachment in Outlook to open it, MS-Word opens, and I have an empty Document1 plus the Word attachment open. Is there a way to eliminate the empty Document1 so only the attachment is open? TIA Marie |
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Thanks, Beth.
I figured out it was caused by one of the procedures in the autoexec module of one of my global startup templates causing the problem. I have resolved it this morning. Have a good day! Marie "Beth Melton" wrote: It sounds like your Word file association is missing the /n switch which suppresses a new document when you double-click a document to open it outside the Word application.. Rather than trying to manually edit it you can re-create the file associations. Go to Start/Run and run: winword /r Note the space before the forward slash. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "MarieJ" wrote in message ... One more observation - this doesn't just happen with Outlook attachments. The extra Document1 appears if Word is closed, and I double-click a document saved on my desktop as well. Word then opens, and I am left with a Document1 plus the document saved on my desktop. I would like to eliminate the Document1. This is Word 2003/Outlook 2003/Windows XP environment. The extra Document1 does not appear on our Word 2000/Outlook 2000/Windows 2000 environment. TIA again. Marie "MarieJ" wrote: Hi, When MS-Word is not open, and I double-click a Word attachment in Outlook to open it, MS-Word opens, and I have an empty Document1 plus the Word attachment open. Is there a way to eliminate the empty Document1 so only the attachment is open? TIA Marie |
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