I am using Windows XP Professional Version 2002. When I close an open document in Word, it closes the whole program. Does anyone know how to fix this. Thank you.
My guess (like the others, I think) is that you are closing the document by clicking on the red "X" in the upper right corner of the document. That does close the program. There is a smaller, black "x" below it that only closes the currently visible document, so you can just go to File, Close and close the file that way.
Hi, and thank you for replying. I am using Word Version 2003. I forgot to mention in my posting that this problem is intermittent. For instance, this morning when I opened Word, whenever I opened a document and then closed it, the entire program closed. Later in the morning, I opened the program, opened a filed, closed it and the program remained opened. To answer your question about how I am closing the document, I go to file, close or I go to the X close symbol for the document. Either way, it would close the document and the program. Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks. Carol
Carol, you are not the only person experiencing this problem, that's for sure. Looking at some of the Google results suggests that there may be more than one cause and more than one possible solution.
One possible work around that I found was to use a Ctrl+W keyboard shortcut to close the document but not the program. Did not have a chance to try it out.
Sigh - well, my dad was red/green color blind, so it would have just been shades of gray....
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