On 19/12/2008, at 11:47 AM, Severin Crisp wrote:
the annoying habit that both Word and Excel have of always opening
a blank document when I bring them up.
Severin,
In regard to your query above about Word & Excel always opening a
blank document on starting the application.
The default worksheet works in the same way as Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, TextEdit, and other applications to provide a starting
document, but there are some preferences you can set to get a
different startup experience.
Go to Excel->Preferences, to the General preferences, you can turn on
the checkbox for "Open Project Gallery when application opens", then
the Project Gallery window will open first thing when you launch
Excel, and you can access recently used files in the "Recent" tab,
open a new file from a template, or use the "Open Other..." button to
choose a file to open.
If you are generally working on a key workbook or set of workbooks at
any one time, you can have these files open automatically each time
you launch Excel. Go to Excel->Preferences, to the General
preferences, and find the setting, "At startup, open all files in:".
Click the Choose button and you can select a file folder. All the
documents in the folder that Excel can parse will open each time you
launch, so be aware that text files, all workbooks, and other files
will be opened.
Cheers,
Ronni
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