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Speed up MS Word by keeping it open?

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by gareths

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Hi there, long time reader first post ever.

I had a browse through google and couldnt find anything so I thought I would ask here.

Anyway, in my role, I get the joy of opening and closing plenty of word and excel documents. Now the thing is, it usually takes a second or two to open and close. Not really a big deal if you open a couple of docs an hour but change that to 10 docs a minute and it gets pretty annoying pretty fast.

Now, I noticed that if you have a word document open when opening or closing another document, it does this quite briskly. Is there a way to keep MS office open? The only other example of this I can think of is Adobe Quick start (which I have disabled anyway).

This would probably consume quite a bit of memory but if your flicking through lots of documents it dosn't really matter.

Let me know what you think of this anyway

cheers
Gareth

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by thumbsup2

Your post is a bit confusing. Your title says keep WORD open. In the body of the post you ask if there's a way to keep Office open? Does that mean you want to keep each of the applications IN Office open? By that statement, I'm not exactly sure what it is that you want to do. So, I'll assume you MEANT to say keep Word open.

Well, it depends on how you're opening your documents. Since you didn't say, I'll presume you're using Explorer with a list of documents in front of you and you're double clicking them to open them one at a time, then closing Word and double clicking the next file.

If you look closely when you have a document open, in the upper right corner there are 2 X's. There's the big red X to close Word. Right below it, if you have the document fully maximized (not just the window), there's another little X. If you click the little X to close just the document, the Word window stays open. You just go back to Explorer and double click the next document to open it in the Word window that is already open.

Note: If it requests a virus scan for each document opened, it will still take just as long to run the scan. But, it won't have to fire up Word each time.

by thumbsup2

I'm still ROTFLMAO!!!! What an idea! I've subscribed... :D

by thumbsup2

we can still get to it through the link here, or through the link in subscription alerts.....

AND.... best of all, it still has a Post Reply button on it!

Nothing like a hidden thread for us to have fun in! Ya think?

Psssssttt!!! Pass the word! ;)

by w2ktechman

but I have found that several things that I post to seem to disappear shortly after.
I think my TR account(s) are being messed with, so likely I wont be posting much for a while.

by thumbsup2

Hate it when that happens (the hacking).

I've had several disappear myself. But, it's usually when I reply to a duplicate post and someone else replies to the twin. Somehow, mine always seems to be the half that gets wiped even though I've offered what I considered to be a valid answer to the question.

Oh well.... :|

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