Is there a way in Word 2003 for Windows to have a Word.doc remember the size
of the window and its position on screen so that it re-opens the same way the
next time?

This should be the default behavior. Are you seeing something different? How
are you opening Word?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"BobW" wrote in message
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Is there a way in Word 2003 for Windows to have a Word.doc remember the
size
of the window and its position on screen so that it re-opens the same way
the
next time?

Yup, thanks for verifying that it is the default behavior. that's what i
THOUGHT it was, but sometimes it doesn't seem to work right; I resized a .doc
window down this morning, saved and closed it, and when I double clicked on
it and reopened it, it opened in a much larger window. Same thing happened
several times with several different .docs, so I went looking for that
elusive 'setting' wondering if it had gotten changed somehow.

Sometimes Word's paint bucket palette stops working and I have to close all
docs and quit and relaunch Word, to fix it. Maybe there's some kind of
transient memory glitch happening sometimes, that can temporarily take out
the window size memory function, too. Just a wild guess.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

This should be the default behavior. Are you seeing something different? How
are you opening Word?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"BobW" wrote in message
...
Is there a way in Word 2003 for Windows to have a Word.doc remember the
size
of the window and its position on screen so that it re-opens the same way
the
next time?

I'm probably the world's worst person to tackle this problem because (a) I
always run Word (and virtually every other application) maximized and (b) I
always start Word (using a keyboard shortcut) from a desktop shortcut that
is configured to open Word maximized (almost never by double-clicking on a
document, though when I do, they open maximized). So I'm not very
knowledgeable about the behavior of "Normal" windows, but I'm wondering if
the window size might perhaps reflect the last "Normal" window used in any
application, as opposed to Word specifically or this specific document.

Perhaps someone else with more experience in this area can offer more
guidance.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"BobW" wrote in message
...
Yup, thanks for verifying that it is the default behavior. that's what i
THOUGHT it was, but sometimes it doesn't seem to work right; I resized a
..doc
window down this morning, saved and closed it, and when I double clicked
on
it and reopened it, it opened in a much larger window. Same thing happened
several times with several different .docs, so I went looking for that
elusive 'setting' wondering if it had gotten changed somehow.

Sometimes Word's paint bucket palette stops working and I have to close
all
docs and quit and relaunch Word, to fix it. Maybe there's some kind of
transient memory glitch happening sometimes, that can temporarily take out
the window size memory function, too. Just a wild guess.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

This should be the default behavior. Are you seeing something different?
How
are you opening Word?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"BobW" wrote in message
...
Is there a way in Word 2003 for Windows to have a Word.doc remember
the
size
of the window and its position on screen so that it re-opens the same
way
the
next time?