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Opening MS Word without blank doc

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Name: Rambler
Date: April 17, 2004 at 09:55:05 Pacific
OS: Win2K Pro, XP, 98, 95
CPU/Ram: Celeron 866 512MB
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A little tip I'd like to pass on. I've found it annoying having Word open with a blank document when I just want to open an existing doc. I've copied the shortcut to my desktop, and changed the target line to add /n at the end, like this:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\WINWORD.exe" /n

Other switches (most work on Word 2000) can be found here.



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Name: dashwood95
Date: April 18, 2004 at 13:05:03 Pacific
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Though it doesn't bother me at all to have Word open with a doc, that is really cool of you to share that info. However, I did notice that it blocks you from switching between open docs with the "windows" menu, and that I don't like.

Thanks though. It's always great to learn something new.


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Name: Report_2
Date: April 19, 2004 at 05:11:29 Pacific
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"However, I did notice that it blocks you from switching between open docs with the "windows" menu."

Mine continues to work but I must have more than one document open for it to do so.

Bryan


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