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From: tlutz@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Todd Lutz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: W4W - no Document 1 wanted
Message-ID: <15720016@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Date: 20 May 91 16:25:10 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
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Timothy F. Sipples and William C Tom led me to the answer:

    winword /n

It is even documented in the manual, under "Starting Word from DOS" on
page 337.

Since I like to have Word for Windows automatically loaded upon starting
Windows, I put it on the load= line in my win.ini.  But command line options
aren't allowed on the load= line (at least I haven't figured out how to get
them to work).

So I did the following in win.ini:

    [windows]
    load=e:\tlutz\word\start.w4w

    [Extensions]
    w4w=d:\winword\winword.exe /n

where "e:\tlutz\word" is where I store my document files and "d:\winword" is
where the program is stored.  "start.w4w" is a non-existent file, but since
it ends with the "w4w" extension, it causes winword to get started (because
of the entry in the [Extensions] section).

Now Word for Windows is automatically loaded and it doesn't automatically
create a "Document 1".

Is there a better way to do this?