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starting word with last document showing
Hi,
I've been trying to find on my machine with Word 97 and on my wife's machine with Word 2000, an option that, when Word is launched, will cause it to come up with the document that was showing when I last quit Word. I'm looking for it because a friend of mine shutdown Word with a document showing, and now, everytime he launches Word, it comes up with that document showing. It seemed logical to try to find an option that he may have set that causes that behavior. Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give. Terry Liittschwager |
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Hi Terry,
There is a way to do that, which I'll get to in a minute, but that isn't your friend's problem. Your friend has gotten the text of that document save into his Normal.dot template, so every new "blank" document has that text in it. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...ocNotBlank.htm for the steps to fix it. If you really do want to reopen the last document, make a new shortcut to Word on the desktop. Right-click the shortcut and select Properties. In the Target box in the properties dialog, at the end of the existing entry, type a space and add /mFile1 Click OK. That icon will always open Word to the most recent document, the one numbered 1 on the File menu. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:55:57 -0800, Terry Liittschwager wrote: Hi, I've been trying to find on my machine with Word 97 and on my wife's machine with Word 2000, an option that, when Word is launched, will cause it to come up with the document that was showing when I last quit Word. I'm looking for it because a friend of mine shutdown Word with a document showing, and now, everytime he launches Word, it comes up with that document showing. It seemed logical to try to find an option that he may have set that causes that behavior. Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give. Terry Liittschwager |
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Many thanks for the info. The bad normal.dot was the problem.
My friend said to thank you profusely! Terry On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:07:34 -0500, Jay Freedman wrote: Hi Terry, There is a way to do that, which I'll get to in a minute, but that isn't your friend's problem. Your friend has gotten the text of that document save into his Normal.dot template, so every new "blank" document has that text in it. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...ocNotBlank.htm for the steps to fix it. If you really do want to reopen the last document, make a new shortcut to Word on the desktop. Right-click the shortcut and select Properties. In the Target box in the properties dialog, at the end of the existing entry, type a space and add /mFile1 Click OK. That icon will always open Word to the most recent document, the one numbered 1 on the File menu. |
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Jay Freedman wrote:
Hi Terry, .... If you really do want to reopen the last document, make a new shortcut to Word on the desktop. Right-click the shortcut and select Properties. In the Target box in the properties dialog, at the end of the existing entry, type a space and add /mFile1 Click OK. That icon will always open Word to the most recent document, the one numbered 1 on the File menu. .... HEY! That's great! Don't recall where, but I keep seeing people ask a question like that and never a positive response! KUDOS! Hmm, wonder if that'd work for file1, file2, file3, etc.: That would be handy at times when you want several files located in different folders. -- Any easy way to do that? I can't find the source of that info: -- Is it Word, Office, or XP sourced? I'd like to learn more. Regards, Pop |
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I found the info: It's in Help and Support. Word Help has
"some" of the switches, but only XP seems to have all of them for Word, including the /mfilename. Dunno what THAT'S about! MRU, I suppose, but ... . Pop Thanks again for the tip! |
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:48:38 -0500, "Pop"
wrote: Jay Freedman wrote: Hi Terry, ... If you really do want to reopen the last document, make a new shortcut to Word on the desktop. Right-click the shortcut and select Properties. In the Target box in the properties dialog, at the end of the existing entry, type a space and add /mFile1 Click OK. That icon will always open Word to the most recent document, the one numbered 1 on the File menu. ... HEY! That's great! Don't recall where, but I keep seeing people ask a question like that and never a positive response! KUDOS! Hmm, wonder if that'd work for file1, file2, file3, etc.: That would be handy at times when you want several files located in different folders. -- Any easy way to do that? I can't find the source of that info: -- Is it Word, Office, or XP sourced? I'd like to learn more. Regards, Pop Hi Pop, Yes, it works for the other files, if there are that many in the recently used list. But you can only use one of them in any given shortcut. A better solution for multiple files is the Work menu (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WorkMenu.htm). The Help topic "Customize how Word starts" explains about startup switches, including the /m switch. There's more information at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=210565. The tricky bit is that the "macro" named in the /m switch can be any Word command, and File1 is the command to load the most recent document. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Jay Freedman wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:48:38 -0500, "Pop" wrote: Jay Freedman wrote: Hi Terry, .... Hi Pop, Yes, it works for the other files, if there are that many in the recently used list. But you can only use one of them in any given shortcut. A better solution for multiple files is the Work menu (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WorkMenu.htm). The Help topic "Customize how Word starts" explains about startup switches, including the /m switch. There's more information at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=210565. The tricky bit is that the "macro" named in the /m switch can be any Word command, and File1 is the command to load the most recent document. Hi! Good suggestions that I think I'll be able to use. Thank you for the veritable cornucopia of related links all about what I wanted to know! I had experimented with the file1, file2 a bit, and decided it would be useful, although not perfect, and the Work Menu was completely new to me. Guess I have to go back to learning the Help topics/contents again g. In most situations, 9 files will be enough; the problem I have is really that the files are, by necessity, in different folders so 'dragging' over them doesn't help much. In one case though, I can pretty easily get fifteen opened by using one manual drag, so it's a big step forward for me. I've tried a macro to get them, but t hat's clumsy and I never did get one to work out. Yes, I noticed, and recorded, the caveats etc. that go along with some of the things I captured. Here's a minor OT question, and if you don't answer, that's fine: IMO, MVPS.org is a pretty well kept "secret", though I don't understand why. Do the server logs reflect a lot of activity, or are they idling a lot of the time? Mostly just curious. I plan to look for a source to see if there are any preferences for linking to the ORG from one of the non-profit web sites I manage (SPCA and HS Alumni) on Tripod. Thanks much, Pop |
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FWIW, you won't find anything in the Help file about the Work menu. For some
reason, it's almost entirely undocumented. As for word.mvps.org, it is very heavily trafficked; even Microsoft's Word User Assistance pages link to our articles there. -- 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. "Pop" wrote in message ... Jay Freedman wrote: On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:48:38 -0500, "Pop" wrote: Jay Freedman wrote: Hi Terry, ... Hi Pop, Yes, it works for the other files, if there are that many in the recently used list. But you can only use one of them in any given shortcut. A better solution for multiple files is the Work menu (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WorkMenu.htm). The Help topic "Customize how Word starts" explains about startup switches, including the /m switch. There's more information at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=210565. The tricky bit is that the "macro" named in the /m switch can be any Word command, and File1 is the command to load the most recent document. Hi! Good suggestions that I think I'll be able to use. Thank you for the veritable cornucopia of related links all about what I wanted to know! I had experimented with the file1, file2 a bit, and decided it would be useful, although not perfect, and the Work Menu was completely new to me. Guess I have to go back to learning the Help topics/contents again g. In most situations, 9 files will be enough; the problem I have is really that the files are, by necessity, in different folders so 'dragging' over them doesn't help much. In one case though, I can pretty easily get fifteen opened by using one manual drag, so it's a big step forward for me. I've tried a macro to get them, but t hat's clumsy and I never did get one to work out. Yes, I noticed, and recorded, the caveats etc. that go along with some of the things I captured. Here's a minor OT question, and if you don't answer, that's fine: IMO, MVPS.org is a pretty well kept "secret", though I don't understand why. Do the server logs reflect a lot of activity, or are they idling a lot of the time? Mostly just curious. I plan to look for a source to see if there are any preferences for linking to the ORG from one of the non-profit web sites I manage (SPCA and HS Alumni) on Tripod. Thanks much, Pop |
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:28:44 -0500, "Pop"
wrote: Here's a minor OT question, and if you don't answer, that's fine: IMO, MVPS.org is a pretty well kept "secret", though I don't understand why. Do the server logs reflect a lot of activity, or are they idling a lot of the time? Mostly just curious. I plan to look for a source to see if there are any preferences for linking to the ORG from one of the non-profit web sites I manage (SPCA and HS Alumni) on Tripod. Thanks much, Pop I'm a frequent visitor and occasional contributor to the site, but I don't have anything to do with the operations side. A note to might get you the information you want. As for linking to the site, each article carries a "Terms of Use" link to http://word.mvps.org/TermsofUse.htm that explains how. Anyone is welcome to link to the articles; we don't permit direct copying or rehosting of pages. We'll be happy to have you spread the Word. :-) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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If you use Google to search for Word FAQ or Word help it comes up the MVP
site comes up. It is referenced in most of the sites about Word that I've seen. You won't find much about the Work menu in help. I think it has been pretty much undocumented since Word 3 or 4. (I believe it predates templates!) -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Pop" wrote in message ... Jay Freedman wrote: On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:48:38 -0500, "Pop" wrote: Jay Freedman wrote: Hi Terry, ... Hi Pop, Yes, it works for the other files, if there are that many in the recently used list. But you can only use one of them in any given shortcut. A better solution for multiple files is the Work menu (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WorkMenu.htm). The Help topic "Customize how Word starts" explains about startup switches, including the /m switch. There's more information at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=210565. The tricky bit is that the "macro" named in the /m switch can be any Word command, and File1 is the command to load the most recent document. Hi! Good suggestions that I think I'll be able to use. Thank you for the veritable cornucopia of related links all about what I wanted to know! I had experimented with the file1, file2 a bit, and decided it would be useful, although not perfect, and the Work Menu was completely new to me. Guess I have to go back to learning the Help topics/contents again g. In most situations, 9 files will be enough; the problem I have is really that the files are, by necessity, in different folders so 'dragging' over them doesn't help much. In one case though, I can pretty easily get fifteen opened by using one manual drag, so it's a big step forward for me. I've tried a macro to get them, but t hat's clumsy and I never did get one to work out. Yes, I noticed, and recorded, the caveats etc. that go along with some of the things I captured. Here's a minor OT question, and if you don't answer, that's fine: IMO, MVPS.org is a pretty well kept "secret", though I don't understand why. Do the server logs reflect a lot of activity, or are they idling a lot of the time? Mostly just curious. I plan to look for a source to see if there are any preferences for linking to the ORG from one of the non-profit web sites I manage (SPCA and HS Alumni) on Tripod. Thanks much, Pop |
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