Windows 10 and Office 2015: Stop redisplaying all minimized documents whenever a new one is opened

Hi,

Neither.  Apparently, I have Microsoft Office 15 (according to the Program files on my computer).

I only use Excel and Word.  I do not use any other Office apps.

I have searched the Help files for any topic that seems even remotely likely to refer to this problem, but it is hard to guess what key words will find the relevant information.  

Office 15 is Office 2013

Office 16 is Office 2016

Another member of the community has informed me that my Office 15 is in fact Office 2013.  So to answer your question: I have Office 2013 and Windows 10.  I don't use any other Office applications that display windows, just Excel and Word (and Outlook).  I have tried to find answers using the Help function without success.  I have searched online for posts from people with the same problem, but they all refer to earlier versions of Windows and therefore do not help because I cannot follow their steps.

This is a very annoying and totally unnecessary and not useful thing that Windows 10/ Office 2013 do.  Please tell me how to stop it.

There are some things to try in the following thread:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-word/how-do-i-prevent-word-from-redisplaying-multiple/3b7594f1-0c1e-4108-9d5f-ced532781812

Also see Jay Freedman's response in the following thread:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-word/word-minimized-files-maximize-when-opening-new/ecedc2ae-88e5-4ea5-82e6-496a44ed5258

The first link is the one I have already read.  Those fixes don't work, and as one person says, they are just duct tape applied after the problem occurs.  The second link gives re-programming instructions that, since I am not a professional or amateur programmer, I do not want to attempt!  Sorry, but this is not helpful.

I am concluding that for whatever reason even though Microsoft knows about this problem, they are choosing to ignore it.

Sorry to dash your expectations, but you need to realise that "Microsoft Support Engineers" with names like that are contractors hired by Microsoft to respond to questions in these newsgroups and that is mostly done by them re-gurgitating from a list of canned responses.

People like Jay Freedman have far more knowledge of the workings of Word than probably all of those contractors combined.

As my "handle" suggests, I wasn't born yesterday, and I suspected the "Support Engineer" was like many such people I have consulted in the past who just follow the same links I have already followed and don't really know anything for themselves.

However, I do not want to try to re-write the code as Jay Freedman says to do because I am not knowledgeable in programming and could easily make a small but deadly mistake and not know how to undo it.  I have a relative who is a real programmer and the next time he visits I will ask him to look at Jay's code fix.

At this point, I am just hoping to make enough "noise" to keep the issue alive and maybe some real programmer will notice and fix it in some future update.  Call it a public service :-) 

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