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You
can control the startup behavior in Word
You can control the startup
behavior in Word (and most Windows programs) by adding one or more switches to
the command line that points to the executable file. For Word, this file is
Winword.exe, found in the Program Files folder where you have installed
Microsoft Office. To change Word's startup behavior, you have to locate a Word
shortcut icon that points to Winword.exe. These icons may be found on your
Programs menu, on your Desktop, on the Quick Launch toolbar on the Taskbar, or
on the Office Shortcut Bar. Some Word shortcut icons cannot be modified using
the procedure outlined below
- Click the shortcut icon using
the right mouse button, click Properties, then click the Shortcut tab.
- In Microsoft Windows NT, click
the Word program icon, then click Properties on the File menu.
- In the Target box or the Command
Line box, you should see the path to Word. This path is usually
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword.exe", but this
may be different in your installation.
- At the end of the path, outside
of the quotes, type one or more of the switches shown in the table below.
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(no switch)
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Start Word with a
new blank document. If you start more instances of Word, they will all
have the same list of documents on the Window menu.
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/n
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Start Word without
a new blank document. If you start more instances of Word, they will all
have their own list of documents on the Window menu.
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/w
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Start Word with a
new blank document. If you start more instances of Word, they will all
have their own list of documents on the Window menu.
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/ttemplatename
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Start Word with a
new document based on a template other than the Normal template.
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/a
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Start Word and
prevent add-ins and global templates (including the Normal
template) from being loaded automatically. The /a switch also
locks the setting files so that they cannot be read or modified.
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/m
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Start Word without
running any AutoExec macros.
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/mmacroname
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Start Word and
then run a specific macro. The /m switch also prevents Word from
running any AutoExec macros.
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