Unwanted blank document in Word 2003 (urgency rating 1/100)

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Benny

I recently migrated from W 97 to W 2003. When I open Word, it gives me a
blank document 1. However when I open the document I want to work on,
Document 1 stays put. I don't recall this happening with my previous
version- if I opened a document to work on, Document 1 seemed to realise
that it was not wanted, and quietly went away. It's not the biggest problem
in the world, but I'm just curious- did the blank document always stay
there, and I didn't notice it, whereas it's more obvious in W2003 because it
has its own button on the taskbar?
 
Word 2003 here behaves the same as previous versions -- Document 1
closes automatically and its taskbar button disappears when I open
another document.

The only way I know to make Document 1 hang around is to make some
edit in it, such as typing a space and deleting it. A "dirtied"
document won't close automatically. Do you perhaps have an AutoExec
macro that's doing something like that?
 
could it be because Norton Antivirus is scanning the document on startup?

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Benny
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Jezebel said:
Querying the document properties in code will do it, too.



Jay Freedman said:
Word 2003 here behaves the same as previous versions -- Document 1
closes automatically and its taskbar button disappears when I open
another document.

The only way I know to make Document 1 hang around is to make some
edit in it, such as typing a space and deleting it. A "dirtied"
document won't close automatically. Do you perhaps have an AutoExec
macro that's doing something like that?
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because
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Or not in code--just using File | Properties. This won't show up on the Undo
list but will dirty the document.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Jezebel said:
Querying the document properties in code will do it, too.



Jay Freedman said:
Word 2003 here behaves the same as previous versions -- Document 1
closes automatically and its taskbar button disappears when I open
another document.

The only way I know to make Document 1 hang around is to make some
edit in it, such as typing a space and deleting it. A "dirtied"
document won't close automatically. Do you perhaps have an AutoExec
macro that's doing something like that?
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because
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