Re: Word 2003 File/Close closes Word
From: Charles Kenyon (msnewsgroup_at_remove.no.spam.addbalance.com)
Date: 01/21/05
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:24:32 -0600
Terry,
Thank you for the information.
-- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "TF" <terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom> wrote in message news:%23$tNP%23z$EHA.960@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > Using Word2003 as the email editor is fine (unlike previous versions). You > just have to know that Microsoft kept secret certain behaviour patterns - > such that if Outlook is open and you have opened Word, even though you > close > Word, it still stays open but hidden unless the system demands greater > hunks > of memory than is free to the system. This is solely a performance > 'enhancement' to speed up creating and editing emails. That's why Word > will > keep incrementing the blank document until both Word and Outlook have been > closed together. We have many users that leave Word and Outlook running > all > day: it really doesn't matter that the blank document increments - as long > as you know why! Some users deliberately dirty the blank document so that > it > never closes itself. > > Terry Farrell > > "Charles Kenyon" <msnewsgroup@remove.no.spam.addbalance.com> wrote in > message news:ehAiTDz$EHA.960@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > : This is only one of many reasons that people here recommend not using > Word > : as an email editor. It generally messes up using it as a Word processor > and > : gives you emails that are not plain text. > : -- > : > : Charles Kenyon > : > : Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word > : > : Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of > : Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide > : > : See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! > : --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- > : This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies > : and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn > : from my ignorance and your wisdom. > : > : "Gina Emory" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > : news:00c401c4ff2d$c6976bc0$a501280a@phx.gbl... > : > Well, I figured out what was going on. He had at least > : > one unfinished email open almost all the time. This was > : > acting as his sort of foundational Word document so, > : > naturally, his doc count kept going up, and when he > : > clicked File/Close, he WAS only closing out that document > : > because Word was still open in the form of his unfinished > : > email composition. Geez, I have pondered this problem > : > for hours and only stumbled across the solution when I > : > noticed an unsent, open email in his task bar. Problem > : > solved. > : > > : > > : >>-----Original Message----- > : >>I have the weirdest thing going on. One staff person > : > has > : >>this problem out of 50. He clicks File/close and Word > : >>closes. I just set him up with a brand new PC, new > : >>Office 2003 install, and all was fine yesterday. I > : >>opened and closed a number of docs with no problem. > : >>Today he informs me it's happening again. I can find no > : >>settings to change to stop this from happening. > : >>Obviously, it's very aggravating. There are other > : >>oddities - the task pane doesn't come up any more, each > : >>new document, regardless of whether or not he has closed > : >>Word, is numbered at the next higher number instead of > : >>starting over at 1. Any assistance will be greatly > : >>appreciated. > : >>. > : >> > : > : > >
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