Stop Word from creating new document in opening

[John_Heil]

When Word starts, it opens with a new blank document. I've managed to change the default (to no new document) when Word first opens by using Tools/Advanced Settings (Option = Word Switches; Setting = /n). However, Word still creates a new blank document whenever (1) no Word document is open, and (2) Word is activated by clicking on the Word icon in the dock.

Is there some way to change this (to me, at any rate) annoying default? Any way to prevent Word from creating a new blank document whenever it is activated?

 

[CyberTaz]

Quoting from JE McGimpsey's reply to an earlier post on the same issue:

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 applicationâ•˙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 applicationâ•˙s main window.)

However: If you switch back to Word using Command+Tab rather than clicking
the Dock icon the new blank doc won't be generated

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

 

[CyberTaz]

BTW - It went right over my head at first glance, but on rereading your
post: What version of Word are you using? If a Mac version where is this
"Advanced Settings" & Switches option coming from - if a PC version, how did
you manage to get a "Dock"?

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

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Bob:

I hesitate to publish this information in here

But if you go to Tools>Macro... And choose ToolsAdvancedSettings, and "Run"
you get the PC Word dialog box, and with it the ability to completely and
impenetrably pooch your Office installation so it will never run again

Cheers

BTW - It went right over my head at first glance, but on rereading your
post: What version of Word are you using? If a Mac version where is this
"Advanced Settings" & Switches option coming from - if a PC version, how did
you manage to get a "Dock"?

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

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[CyberTaz]

Ah - Oversight on my part. The ommission of Macro threw me a bit... didn't
think about that since the word 'macro' doesn't mean much in 2008

 

[Clive Huggan]

I like to keep it simple.

Right hand clicks on the Word icon.

Left hand keys Command-w the split second that the blank document appears.
;-)

Clive Huggan
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