How To Affect How Your Documents Open.

I looked into this which resulted in the  solution in the forum link I provided below, because of an incident during one of my classes.  

I was attempting to show the student the Open and Repair function.  As you know in order to use this, while in MS Word, you go to File, Open and browse for the file that you wish to run the Open and Repair feature.  

When you find the file, you click on the document once to select it then you click on the down arrow on the right side of the Open button and select Open and Repair.

But, the student could not do that because as soon as she clicked the file, it immediately opened up and prevented her from using the Open and Repair feature.  The link below will show you how to change the options in the folder menu so that it does not react from one click.

I would rather not have the one click selection because it limits my control over the document.  If there is a problem with the document where someone sent you a virus or you want to run, like we tried, an Open and Repair, not being able to select the file places you at a disadvantage.

I equate this situation to using the Hyperlink Function when running a Table Of Contents.  As you know, if you run a TOC with the hyperlinks selection, many an attorney do not want it on because they don't want the document to react (jump) unless they intentionally want to jump to a particular area of the document from the TOC by use of Control and Clicking on the page number.

This gives them more control over the document, and in our situation here having the ability to select a file without it immediately opening is a better option.

Check out the link below on how to affect the opening of files.

 http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/295-folder-options-open.html

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