[Nelli0]

I have a Dell Inspiron laptop running Win7, FF and Microsoft Essentials.

The problem I've been having for some months is that when I open a Word doc that I've saved it will open a blank page first. This isn't, I'm sure, serious, but it is darned annoying having to close two of them. I might add that this usually happens only when I first open a document after boot up. If I open a saved doc any time after it doesn't happen, well rarely anyway. At first I found that some of my docs had been saved (somehow) as Macro Enabled. I changed them all and the problem cleared but only temporarily. I've compared Word Options in both screens when they open and they all seem to be the same.

Now since I'm a writer and am frequently creating and saving Word docs I really would like to knock this on the head. I did find an old thread here and tried the remedy but without success. Can anyone help - pleeease?

[feckit]

See Word 2007 with Win7

[nivrip]

Not sure what's happened, feckit, but your link simply brings up this thread again.

[Nelli0]

I found the same thing, feckit.

[feckit]

Originally Posted by nivrip

Not sure what's happened, feckit, but your link simply brings up this thread again.

Niv, Nelli0 had two threads on the same subject & one has been deleted by a Mod!

[alow]

Look for Normal.dotm in C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates and change the ".dotm" to ".old" and let me know if that fixes it for you.

[Nelli0]

I just opened a Word doc after trying your solution. Only my saved file opened up! However, I shall see what happens next time I boot up because I've been this far before. Thanks for the remedy though. I'll let you know how things progress.
I Found several files named Normal and one called Normal1. Do I need them all? No idea what they are.

[alow]

Normal.dotm is the standard template that Word uses for new, blank documents. Renaming it to Normal.old forces Word to create a new one the next time you start the program without actually deleting it so you don't lose any autotext, or things that may be saved in the normal template. If you have several, you probably have Normal.dot and Normal.dotm. The dot version is from older versions of Word.

[Nelli0]

Just to test your solution I switched off my pc completely. Then I booted up again to open a saved document. Hey presto, only the one appeared. No blank grey (except for Word toolbar) screen. I am so grateful alow. I've searched for months for a remedy for this annoying little habit. It seems now that you have solved it for me.
I very much hope so anyway. Thanks again.

[alow]

Glad I could help