I am responding to you, to wit, it sounds as if your new document (the Normal) document has gotten your problem saved in it



This was my point via example when I said once I got "underline" saved as a default in my Normal document

I spent a lot of time trying to get this out to no avail so this was why I said (screamed) to heck with it and reinstalled my Word

If you don't like the above, then you can spend some time updating your Normal document, because this is where your problem lies: "My question concerned all minimized Word windows opening when a new Doc is opened." Your new doc has this contained in it whether you can see it or not

Any new document is based on this core document and will have the same issue

Then I guess what I didn't know before is that this is not the way Word 2007 is suppose to behave? I thought this is standard behavior for this program. If not, I guess I just will re-install.

Also, to clarify: It does not occur when I open a new document but only when I open an existing document that hasn't been opened