Advanced Tools Startup Switches Word Mac X

[James D. Bower]

Is there an easy way of starting word without its default blank document?
There used to be "switches" you could define in Menu>Tools>Tools Advanced
Settings>then define Option settings. There were documented switches in word
5.x for Mac that included "/n" for starting with a blank document. I cannot
recall the syntax for the other settings. Anyone have an idea or a better
way of starting Word without its bland document?

 

[John McGhie [MVP]]

James:

"/n" will probably still work if you insist. However, you need to be aware
that if Word has no document loaded, it has no global template loaded
either, which can be a problem with what you want to do next.

You could also use:

Sub AutoExec()
activedocument.close
End sub

You may need to insert an OnTime(Now + "00:00:05") statement ahead of the
close statement to ensure that Word is fully loaded before it attempts to
close the active document.

Please check my syntax: I am on the train at the moment and I can't.

Cheers

Is there an easy way of starting word without its default blank document?
There used to be "switches" you could define in Menu>Tools>Tools Advanced
Settings>then define Option settings. There were documented switches in word
5.x for Mac that included "/n" for starting with a blank document. I cannot
recall the syntax for the other settings. Anyone have an idea or a better
way of starting Word without its bland document?

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