I’ve a shortcut on my desktop for several Word Perfect docs that I use
frequently. I’ve encountered something weird and have no explanation why it
would happen, so maybe you could tell me. When I click on the icon for one file,
it opens two different files. Sometimes more. For example, I’m clicking on the
icon for file X and Word Perfect opens up File X. However, if I go to a window in
the menu and check, there are two files open that I can swap between. I think
it’s mostly Word Perfect documents, but I seem to remember Word doing it, too.
I’m using Vista, SP2, 64-bit and Word Perfect 11. The second file looks to be
the last one I had open, but that doesn’t hold true for all the links, one just
opens the file I’m actually clicking on.
In this excerpt from
Answercast #48, I look at a case where multiple files seem to be opening in
Word Perfect. It might be a simple setting in the program.
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Multiple docs opened
I believe the clue is actually what you just described.
- I do believe that the program is simply opening up the windows that it had
opened when it was last closed.
Now, I’m not a Word Perfect expert, don’t get me wrong. Don’t consider this
authoritative on Word Perfect behavior, but I do know of many programs that do
exactly that.
Opening recent files
The scenario is simply this:
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You open up files A, B, and C and then you close the program.
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The next time you start the program, it automatically re-opens files A, B,
and, C.
Now, if you have a shortcut to file D and you use that to open the program,
my expectation is that:
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It is then opening D;
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And also the last windows it had opened as well (including A, B, and C.)
So, I think that this is simply the way the program is written, the way the
program is designed to work. It’s a little non-intuitive.
When only one file opens…
My guess is (and again this is just a guess) that the scenario you’re seeing
where you have a shortcut that opens up only one file:
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It’s very possible that you actually closed all of the other files
the last time you used the program. -
So that there was nothing for it to re-open automatically.
Like I said, that’s a guess. It is behavior that I have seen in
applications, certainly word processing applications.
I’m not sure again about Word Perfect specifically, but it is behavior
that would in fact explain what you’re seeing.
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Thanks for answering my question Leo. Just thought I’d let you know what else I found out. I believe your answer was on the right track. In WP there is an option to automatically save your “environment” and your environment is everything that you’re doing at the time. When I changed the setting to never save the environment, the problem was solved. Thanks again for tackling this.