Re: Open without a blank document?

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>From the help file under Customize how Word Starts>Startup Switches

/n

Start a new instance of Word with no document open. Documents opened in each
instance of Word will not appear as choices in the Window menu of other
instances.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1de9180ffa516f0989c4f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Word 2003, Win XP Pro SP2
>
> Seems to me with Word 97 there was some option, when opening Word
> directly, to have it _not_ start with a blank document. Then when I
> did File>>New and selected a template I'd have just one Word doc
> open, he new one I was creating.
>
> But I can't find that option in Word 2003. And since I have "Show
> windows in Taskbar" set I have a taskbar spot for the unneeded empty
> document and a second one for the document I'm creating. (I want to
> keep "Show windows in Taskbar" for the times when I'm actually
> working on more than one document at a time.)
>
> I see the /n switch in Help for the command line, but is there any
> option setting?
>
> --
> Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
> http://OakRoadSystems.com/
> "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
> been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/


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