automatically open a document upon starting Word 97

[Tanya King]

I dont know whether this is possible, but there are about
5 documents that I need to open every morning as soon as I
open my Microsoft Word program (97). I was wondering if
it was possible to format Word so that upon opening the
program, these documents would automatically open as
well. It would help because sometimes I forget to open
the documents until later. Also, it would make life
easier.

thanks for your help in anticipation.

Tanya

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, Tanya,

This isn't really an "inside Word" solution, more of a "how Windows works"
solution. Open Notepad and write two lines like these:

cd "C:\Documents and Settings\Tanya\My Documents"
start winword.exe mydoc1.doc mydoc2.doc mydoc3.doc mydoc4.doc

Replace the path in the first line with the actual path to the folder that
holds your documents. Replace the "mydocX.doc" names with the actual file
names of the documents. Save this two-line file with a .BAT extension (this
is the special extension for batch files) on your desktop. Instead of
starting Word from its shortcut, just double-click the batch file's icon.

If the files aren't all in the same folder, you can put full paths in the
file names on the second line, enclosing each in quotes if it contains any
spaces:

start winword.exe mydoc1.doc "D:\finance docs\mydoc2.doc"