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Open Word in same-sized and -placed window
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.
Word won't remember the position of individual document windows. Instead, it is the last size & position in the Word session which determines what you see the next time you start Word.
Do try Jay Freedman's add-in which will actually save settings with documents.
No, Word does NOT remember the last size/position of the window when I close it. It doesn't matter what document I'm opening, it ALWAYS comes up about 2/3 the width of my monitor, nearly centered, and not quite full height. ALWAYS. It doesn't matter what I resize it to. It doesn't matter if I close it with <Shift>-`X`.
What you see in that screen shot is what I ALWAYS get, no matter how I've resized the window before closing it. Maybe, just maybe, if I maximize the window it would remember that, but I don't want to work with a maximized Word window - I'm typing on paper and (in the US) most paper is 8.5x11", so I want my document window to more-or-less reflect that ratio, so I want a tall/skinny rectangle window.
And, while the add-in might work to save the window positions, it's just another case of Microsoft not giving a darn about what their customers want and, instead, declaring "you will work our way and you'll like it" - just like Steve Jobs telling iPhone users "your holding it wrong".
Go look at the decade-plus old requests (with 1000s of votes) for simple feature improvements in Excel for importing CSV files for more evidence of how little MS thinks about what their users want. It's sad that Jay Freedman's work-around has to exist to make the software work the way customers want it to. Don't get me wrong, I'm very appreciative that he created his work-around, but there is NO reason he should have had to make it!Since it doesn't work for you, using the add-in is your only option at the moment.
You can of course send feedback to Microsoft by using the portal at https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/forum/fb6d67e3-301c-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8472 but that would be a long term solution, and there is no guarantee that your suggestion will be implemented.
there is no guarantee that your suggestion will be implemented.
That's the understatement of the decade...
And yes, I can use the add-in. The point is I shouldn't have to. MS just doesn't care - they're too busy pushing CoPilot on the world.
But, I get it. You've got your MVP to worry about and you probably can't criticize MS or you'll risk loosing it.