Office 2007 documents not opening immediately...

[abbyqueue]

Hi, I use Office 2007, and I have an issue with opening documents. It doesn't seem to matter which program within Office I use (usually Word or Excel), but for this example, I'll use Word.

If I already have a Word document open on my PC and then open another one (by double-clicking on it in a folder, not opening it from within Word), it doesn't open right up in front of me. Instead, the previously-opened document flashes blue on the taskbar and I have to click on it in order for the newly-opened document to come up.

Is there an option somewhere to get rid of this "feature" and just have the newly-opened document pop right up?

Thanks!

[joenvr33]

I have the same issue. I'm not sure if it's "feature" or a flaw? But any case it's pretty annoying.

[Jazzgirl]

I have never had that problem with Word 2007 or any other 2007 documents. I just opened one document then double-clicked on a document in a folder and it opened right up. You might want to check your preferences in Word and Excel.

[abbyqueue]

I did check my preferences, but can't seem to find anything on it.

[photolady]

I don't have Office 2007 but in Office 2003, under Tools>Options, there is a tick in Windows in taskbar, and when I untick that, it opens the new one as the first document and minimizes the first one within Word. I just tried it because of your question.

[abbyqueue]

Yeah, I don't see anything like that in Office 2007.

[abbyqueue]

Anyone have any updates on this issue? I'm a college instructor and grade papers electronically through Word, so all the extra switching back and forth is getting tiresome!

[Cheryl Flanders]

Are you running Norton AntiVirus? Disable the Office Plug-in in Options/Miscellaneous. This does not put your documents at risk. This was a known problem in previous versions of Word.

[abbyqueue]

Nope, no Norton Antivirus.