[akofod]

Maybe I'm just picky but it really annoys me that MS Word opens up a new document every time I start up the program. Sometimes I want to work on a previous file and I open up Word and have to close the new document. It seems to me there was a way to turn it off in the options but I could be wrong, but I thought I remember having turned it off in the past. Anyway, if anyone knows a way to stop the new document from appearing each time would they let me know please? Thanks.

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if you create a new shortcut for word, and add a /n to the shortcut, it will do as you ask...

[gerryf]

if you create a new shortcut for word, and add a /n to the shortcut, it will do as you ask...

[akofod]

I'm sorry, what do you mean by "and add a /n to the shortcut, "?

[gerryf]

Create a shortcut to msword, then right click the shortcut and choose PROPERTIES, then make it look like this:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" /n

[akofod]

Works great! I tried to create a shortcut and went to properties but for some reason I couldn't edit the directory. Maybe my computer has that access disabled. Instead I created a new shortcut and just found word.exe and added that "/ n" to the back of the address and it worked perfectly. Thanks so much!