Fixed. I removed Word and Excel from the Startup items then put them
back in again and all is now fine apart from a new document window
whenever I bring up Word or Excel (active) from the dock. I find the
"Open Recent" is my preferred start point; for other documents I go to
my Templates, all accessible from an alias in the dock.
At least I do not have those annoying open documents after startup.
Enjoy this hotter day, my thermometer says 24C right now but it felt
hotter than that.
Severin
On 19/12/2008, at 2:45 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
On 19/12/2008, at 11:47 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:
the annoying habit that both Word and Excel have of always opening
a blank document when I bring them up.
Severin,
In regard to your query above about Word & Excel always opening a
blank document on starting the application.
The default worksheet works in the same way as Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, TextEdit, and other applications to provide a starting
document, but there are some preferences you can set to get a
different startup experience.
Go to Excel->Preferences, to the General preferences, you can turn
on the checkbox for "Open Project Gallery when application opens",
then the Project Gallery window will open first thing when you
launch Excel, and you can access recently used files in the "Recent"
tab, open a new file from a template, or use the "Open Other..."
button to choose a file to open.
If you are generally working on a key workbook or set of workbooks
at any one time, you can have these files open automatically each
time you launch Excel. Go to Excel->Preferences, to the General
preferences, and find the setting, "At startup, open all files in:".
Click the Choose button and you can select a file folder. All the
documents in the folder that Excel can parse will open each time you
launch, so be aware that text files, all workbooks, and other files
will be opened.
Cheers,
Ronni
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