Quit and restart with documents in same arrangement?

[aryev]

Is there a way to close Word and later reopen it and have the same documents
I was last working on reopen in the same positions, and on the same pages?

I keep several documents open at once, all a few hundred pages long, and
it's several minutes every day to get everything in order. Which, you know,
starts to add up.

Some kind of "Remember where I was command" would be excellent.

Thanks, you MVP question answerers rock.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Word version?

The obvious approach would be to save all the documents at the end of the
day - Shift+File+Save All in Word 2003 then Hibernate the PC. It will open
again as you left it.

With Word versions before 2007 you could run a macro that would open all the
preferred documents at the last edit positions, but if the documents opened
vary daily, or if some of those documents are protected forms or password
protected it starts to get a whole lot more complicated. If the documents
are Word 2007 documents the last edit postion is not saved when the document
is closed so you would have to insert a marker in each document every time
you save/close the document and recall that position, but the basic code is:

Dim vFilename(2) As Variant 'increment the number by 1 for each additional
file
Dim i As Long
vFilename(0) = "D:\My Documents\Word Documents\Filename1.doc"
vFilename(1) = "D:\My Documents\Word Documents\Filename2.doc"
vFilename(2) = "D:\My Documents\Word Documents\Filename3.doc"
'etc

For i = LBound(vFilename) To UBound(vFilename)
Documents.Open FileName:=vFilename(i)
Application.GoBack
Next i

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[grammatim]

But the problem is that (in 2007) when you start a new Word session,
each document opens in a window sized and placed where the last-closed
document had been in the last Word session.

The problem with leaving Word running overnight is that if you're set
for automatic 3 am updates, all the documents will get closed anyway.

 

[Graham Mayor]

The PC is not running when hibernated. It is switched off and the active
desktop settings are stored in a file which is used to restore everything.
In any case it is not a good plan to allow automatic updates to take place
without your acknowledgement - especially if you are liable to leave
applications running overnight.

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[grammatim]

Well, I'm not so liable ... but MS recommends Automatic Update set for
3 am. Occasionally I find the machine having restarted and waiting for
me to enter my password in the morning.

The oddest thing happened on Wednesday morning after an update: I no
longer have Vista "appearances"! The taskbar is flat gray, the desktop
sidebar (with the "gadgets" in it -- I like the system tach, the
clockface, the weather, and the calendar page) is also flat gray (it
used to be transparent, so the right 1.5 inches of my desktop image
are now obscured), and the window title bars are XP-ish -- a dark blue
bar that fades to light blue at the right end, the Explorer tabs are
all squared off. I can't find anywhere in the control panel where I
can change Appearance -- and the picture in right-click Taskbar >
Properties shows the proper Vista appearance!

 

[Jay Freedman]

Well, I'm not so liable ... but MS recommends Automatic Update set for
3 am. Occasionally I find the machine having restarted and waiting for
me to enter my password in the morning.

The oddest thing happened on Wednesday morning after an update: I no
longer have Vista "appearances"! The taskbar is flat gray, the desktop
sidebar (with the "gadgets" in it -- I like the system tach, the
clockface, the weather, and the calendar page) is also flat gray (it
used to be transparent, so the right 1.5 inches of my desktop image
are now obscured), and the window title bars are XP-ish -- a dark blue
bar that fades to light blue at the right end, the Explorer tabs are
all squared off. I can't find anywhere in the control panel where I
can change Appearance -- and the picture in right-click Taskbar >
Properties shows the proper Vista appearance!

It sounds like the desktop theme has been switched from "Windows Vista" to
"Windows Classic" (which looks just like Windows XP).

Right-click the desktop and click Personalize (or Start > Control Panel >
Personalization) and choose Theme. If I'm right, you can get back to where you
were by choosing the Windows Vista theme (or another, if you saved a custom
theme). You may have to reselect the desktop background picture if you weren't
using the default.

 

[grammatim]

It sounds like the desktop theme has been switched from "Windows Vista" to
"Windows Classic" (which looks just like Windows XP).

Right-click the desktop and click Personalize (or Start > Control Panel >
Personalization) and choose Theme. If I'm right, you can get back to where you
were by choosing the Windows Vista theme (or another, if you saved a custom
theme). You may have to reselect the desktop background picture if you weren't
using the default.

Well, that did it! (Except for resetting the Opacity of the gadgets.)
Thank you.

But why, dear Microsoft, would I right-click on the Desktop, when the
Desktop hadn't changed at all and had been customized to the extent of
having my own background image, whereas right-clicking on the Taskbar
and the Sidebar, where I hadn't changed anything, yielded nothing at
all?

I.e., why would their update have caused Vista-look to change to non-
Vista?