HowTo Open Word Or Excel Without New Doc (or spreadsheet)

In an older version of Excel and Word there was a way to get them to open without the blank document or spreadsheet.  I can't remember where the option was located, but it there was a file location where at the end you added (space)/e or something ... There was a different letter after the / in the other program ... Sorry to be so vague, but that's all I remember and the computer that had this version of Word and Excel finally died and I've upgraded to Windows 7.
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Press Windows key + R to activate the Run window.

Enter  winword /n  to start Word without creating a new document.

Enter  excel /e  to start Excel without creating a new workbook.

Then press Enter or click OK.

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You can create a shortcut that opens with this path. See “How to use startup command line switches to start Word 2010, Word 2007, Word 2003, Word 2002, and Word 2000” at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=210565.
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