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From: jayvana@wpi.wpi.edu (Jay van Achterberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS-Word 4.0
Message-ID: <10120@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 90 18:10:49 GMT
References: <2534@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Reply-To: jayvana@wpi.wpi.edu (Jay van Achterberg)
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Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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In article <2534@rodan.acs.syr.edu> jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ace Stewart) writes:
>I would like, if this is even possible, to instead of get a new document
>when I run MS-Word, to instead have the program prompt me with the 
>OPEN dialogue box. That way insted of closing and opening, I can open
>a document without searching through folders to find it.

As far as I know, there's no way to have Word prompt you with the open dialog
automatically on startup. Microsoft did build several nice features into
Word that make opening a file as opposed to writing a new file a little less
painful:

1.	If you choose the "Open..." command and open a file without making
	changes to the 	"Untitled 1" window that you get on startup, the
	"Untitled 1" window will automatically close. Therefore you don't have
	to close the existing window if all you want to do is open a new
	document.

	Expanding further, if you assign a convenient keystroke to the
	"Open..." command, all you have to do is launch Word, hit your
	convenient keystroke (I like command-tab) and there's the open
	dialog, which will act exactly like an open dialog that comes up in
	place of a new window.

2.	If you open specific documents all the time, you can add them to
	your "Work" menu, so they're only a menu selection away. Again, I
	think the "Untitled 1" window will go away if you select one of these
	documents without modifying the "Untitled 1" document.

3.	You can also make Word open a specific document when you make a
	certain keystroke. In the "Commands" window, choose "Open File Name:",
	select a document to open, and assign a keystroke to it. To remove
	that file from the keystroke later (this one took me a while to
	figure out), go to the "Open File Name:" command and select the same
	file using the "Open File..." button (you'll have to work your way
	through file hiearchy again). The file will be listed, and you can
	remove any assigned keystrokes from it.

	Opening a specific file with a keystroke is also nice for opening
	files at startup without messing around with the mouse.



				-Jay (jayvana@wpi.wpi.edu, jayvana@wpi.bitnet)