Opening word files

[Polska]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

On pressing the 'W' icon in my dock (the programme is already open), Word automatically opens a new blank document; how do I stop it doing this?

Also, I have found that if I receive a Word document from a client I cannot open it (ie double click on it as I see it in my message window or indeed, if I put it on my desk top I still can't double click on it and open it; I have to open Word (which needlessly opens a blank document that I don't want!) and then open it via 'file' and 'open'. Is there not something that I can do so that I can simply double click on a file and it'll open??!!

 

[Bras]

Check for updates, go to help and download 12.1.1 update, this should fix
the issue with double clicking files.

As for the new blank, when Word opens it initially loads a blank page, when
you close this blank document and leave word open in the back ground and
then click the W to go back, it should not load a new page. Do you close the
document that was initially opened?

Bras

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

These new docs are a new "feature" of Word 2008, separate from the blank
doc at launch.

*If* no documents are already open, it does create a new blank doc when
you click on W in the Dock. You can tell MS you don't want this to
happen via Help | Send Feedback, but unfortunately I think they are
following Apple guidelines on it (Pages behaves the same way).

If you activate Word by using cmd-tab to switch to it, instead of
clicking in the Dock, the new blank doc will not appear. And if you
already have docs open, it will not appear.

Bras, if you have more ways to prevent this from happening, that would
be lovely?

 

[Bras]

Hi Daiya,
Thanks for correcting me on this one ... I am using cmd-tab to switch too
and didn't realize that they changed this behaviour, in 2004 it is behaving
like I was explaining in my first post.
Bras

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Bummer, I was hoping you had found a new trick without realizing it
acted differently.

Daiya