Office 2007 and Vista additional instance?

I have a very odd "problem" or annoyance. After I reboot, the very first time I double click on a Word document or an Excel file the document will open and I will get an additional instance of Word or Excel with an empty window (not a blank document).

What's REALLY odd is that if I open a Word document first and get this extra blank window, I can then open an Excel document without getting a blank window. If I open an Excel document first, I get two Excel windows (one blank one with my document), I can then open a Word document and get no blank window. I have NOT tried this with any other Office 2007 apps. Just Word and Excel.

VERY STRANGE. Again this only happens after a reboot. And then only one time.

Gary

 

Have you tried the gold old "repair" or reinstall?

I assume you have. Is there some kind of startup process that causes this to happen maybe?

 

Bumping this thread...

Did this issue ever get resolved? Mate of mine's having the same problem, using 2007 apps on Vista, on a pretty new Dell box.

TIA,
DS

 

Well, I'm using Office 2007 on Vista, a Sony SZ and I haven't go this problem.

Neither with nor without Servic Pack 1.

So I suggest there is something wrong with your installaion or your settings.

 

Nope, I learned to live with it.

Trust me, there is nothing wrong with my installation. I restored back to an image that didn'thave office installed and reinstalled it with exactly the same result. No modification to any of the standard settings were ever made.

Gary

 

Gary, you mean this?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291313

or something like this?

http://www.withinwindows.com/2008/0...e-associations-and-document-windows-part-one/

 

Nope, neither of those.

After I reboot (which is rarely, I mostly use hibernate) the very first time I open a Word or Excel document I get two instance of Word or Excel. The first instance opens with a blank window. All the menus are there, it runs fine, it just has no open document. Not even a blank document! The second instance of Word or Excel will have the document I opened.

I close the blank window, and proceed on my way. The next Word or Excel document I open does not cause this strange behavior. It only happens the very first time I open a document after a reboot. If I open Word or Excel itself (not a document) right after a reboot, it works fine, it opens a blank document as expected. This ONLY happens when I open the first document after a reboot. Very odd.

It is an annoyance at best so I just learned to live with it.

Gary

 

^^ That sure looks odd..

But wait.. if I remember from long back, I had similar issues with Excel, and it had something to do with the send to bluetooth addin... I am not sure. Let me check back on my notes to see if it was something similar...

But I do remember, changing a simple registry value, thereby disabling that sendtobluetooth feature...

Edit: Ah no, I checked and guess it's the other way round.. LOL.. I couldn't open a 'new document' or a blank document....!! LOL.. sorry for any confusion.

But on second thoughts, do you think *it might be* something similar? and do u think u wanna give it a try? *I have no idea, just thinking...* > http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=280385

 

I have a question but I'll reply in the thread you just referenced since the question applies to that thread. If it turns out to be applicable to my problem, I'll post back here as well.

Gary

 

Ah well, just a bit of an annoyance then, not a real problem. Thanks for the replies, y'all!