Launching Word

[katydid]

Can you set up Word so a new document doesn't automatically open when you launch it? In the previous version, only the toolbars would appear at the top. A blank document would only open if I clicked the "Open" button. How can I set up Word 2008 to do that?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Sorry, not possible to kill the new doc at launch. I don't know how you
did it in Word 2004/X/2001/98 either. That new document should disappear
if you then immediately open a new document, however, so it shouldn't
get in your way.

(Technically, it might be possible to automatically close that new
document on launch by writing some code, but I can't imagine it's worth
the trouble)

Slightly different issue, not related to launching Word, but just to
activating it: Word 2008 does have new behavior that if you click Word
in the Dock, and no documents are open, it creates a new document. This
is Apple-influenced behavior that's becoming a standard in Mac OS X, so
Word adopted it also. If you don't like it, use Help | Send Feedback to
let MS know.

In the meantime, you can work around that by using Cmd-tab to switch to
Word, instead of clicking in the Dock.

 

[John McGhie]

Not on the Mac. That's a PC Word function (which the Mac probably has too,
but they don't expose it to us).

On the PC, you can send "parameters" to an application before it starts by
adding them to the "Open" command. "\n" I believe suppresses the new blank
document on the PC.

If you can send startup parameters to an OS X Mac application, I don't know
how...

Sorry

Can you set up Word so a new document doesn't automatically open when you
launch it? In the previous version, only the toolbars would appear at the top.
A blank document would only open if I clicked the "Open" button. How can I set
up Word 2008 to do that?

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