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Open Word in same-sized and -placed window
Word will start using the window position and size of the very last document you closed in the preceding session. At least that is true for Word for Windows. If you want to save the window size and position, as well as other settings, with individual documents, try Jay Freedman's add-in called "SaveViewLocMulti"; go to his web site at https://jay-freedman.info/index.htm.
This is what everything says, but, in my experience, it is not what happens.
I find that Word (Win11) in particular will launch on whatever monitor it wants, centered on the monitor, in a very wide window that doesn't run from top to bottom on the monitor.
I can open a Word doc, resize the window the way I want it (including a <windows>-<up arrow> to make it run top to bottom on the monitor), then close it and reopen it immediately and it goes right back to whatever someone at MS determined the default Word window will be. It happens every single time.
I've just learned about using <Shift> while clicking the close `X`, and that will, at least, get the window width saved, but still doesn't get horizontal placement or window height correct.
In my recollection, this broke with the advent of O/M365 - it used to work when it was a simple, desktop application. It's sad that it requires a frequently updated macro to make MS products work the way everyone but MS wants them to.