stop automatic doc open

[violagail]

How do I get Office to stop opening blank documents when I navigate to the program?

 

[John McGhie]

Office applications should create a blank document only when you start them.
If you leave them running, they will not create another blank document once
they have started.

You cannot change this, it is the default behaviour.

If you tell me which version you are using, and on what, I could be more
help.

Cheers

How do I get Office to stop opening blank documents when I navigate to the
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[CyberTaz]

Stop clicking Word's Dock Icon - each time you do Word thinks you're
re-launching it again so it gives you a new doc. I think this must be
peculiar to Leopard - I continue to run Tiger (10.4.11) where I don't
experience this nuisance

Instead, use Command+Tab or Control-Click the Dock icon & select the name of
the already opened doc you want presented.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

No, I see this in Tiger too. Word doesn't think you are launching it
again, I don't think. It only happens if you don't already have a
document active. I suspect this was a deliberate design change and
brings Word into line with Pages, which shows the same behavior, and
I've seen it in several other Mac programs also. I assumed there is
some sort of guideline from Apple suggesting this is a good idea, but
not really sure.

 

[CyberTaz]

Thanks for the insight, Daiya - I guess I just never noticed since I rarely
have Word running without at least 1 doc open. I'll have to check it out
tonight - not that I'm doubting what you say, rather just out of
curiosity

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Word's following standard behavior in accordance with the Apple Human
Interface Guidelines:

Clicking an application icon in the Dock should always
result in a window — a document or another appropriate
window — becoming active. If a document-based application
is not open when the user clicks the Dock icon, the
application should open a new, untitled window.

While an application is open, the Dock icon has a symbol
below it. When a user clicks an open application’s icon
in the Dock, the application becomes active and all open
unminimized windows are brought to the front; minimized
document windows remain in the Dock. If there are no
unminimized windows when the user clicks the Dock icon,
the last minimized window should be expanded and made
active. If no documents are open, the application should
open a new window. (If your application is not
document-based, display the application’s main window.)

Ref: http://tinyurl.com/yux79o

 

[CyberTaz]

Hey Again -

I did confirm what you say... And now that I think about it that's how I
got started with the Cmd-Tabbing method a long time ago Had forgotten
about the behavior altogether.

John's post sums it up thoroughly.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac