[cheri @ king county]

When I close a document in Word, it closes the Word program as well, which
causes an error on my computer and slows everything to a stop while a blank
Word document opens.

Is there a setting that I can change such that when I close a Word document,
it doesn't close the program too? For example, in Excel, if you close an
Excel workbook, it leaves the program open for you to either open another
file or start a new one. Older Word versions used to do this, but with Word
2007, it doesn't.

[Jay Freedman]

cheri @ king county wrote:
When I close a document in Word, it closes the Word program as well,
which causes an error on my computer and slows everything to a stop
while a blank Word document opens.

Is there a setting that I can change such that when I close a Word
document, it doesn't close the program too? For example, in Excel, if
you close an Excel workbook, it leaves the program open for you to
either open another file or start a new one. Older Word versions used
to do this, but with Word 2007, it doesn't.

Read
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...4f3aa13ee83cf7

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[grammatim[_2_]]

Close your last open document with Ctrl-W (or Office button Close)
rather than by clickiing the X in the upper right.

On Nov 20, 12:07*pm, cheri @ king county cheri @ king
wrote:
When I close a document in Word, it closes the Word program as well, which
causes an error on my computer and slows everything to a stop while a blank
Word document opens.

Is there a setting that I can change such that when I close a Word document,
it doesn't close the program too? For example, in Excel, if you close an
Excel workbook, it leaves the program open for you to either open another
file or start a new one. Older Word versions used to do this, but with Word
2007, it doesn't.