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I was hoping to find a solution like holding shift or control while opening to achieve this, like I usually do in Chrome, but that didn't seem to work. &nbsp;The downfall of this solution is all opened documents will be minimized, including the first one.
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I was hoping to find a solution like holding shift or control while opening to achieve this, like I usually do in Chrome, but that didn't seem to work.  The downfall of this solution is all opened documents will be minimized, including the first one.

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Thanks, but does not really solve the issue.<br />
My colleague sitting next to me does not have these symptoms, but we cannot figure out which setting is &quot;wrong&quot;.
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Thanks, but does not really solve the issue.
My colleague sitting next to me does not have these symptoms, but we cannot figure out which setting is "wrong".

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This is very annoying.<br />
Sample:<br />
In Office (Word or Excel) i open e.g. 9 word documents. I then minimize them so they don't show on the screen. <br />
I then open the 10'th document (just double clicking in Explorer).<br />
When this 10'th doc opens, suddenly ALL the other doc's also pops up on my screen (even if they are minimised)<br />
How do I turn off this most annoying feature.
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This is very annoying.
Sample:
In Office (Word or Excel) i open e.g. 9 word documents. I then minimize them so they don't show on the screen. 
I then open the 10'th document (just double clicking in Explorer).
When this 10'th doc opens, suddenly ALL the other doc's also pops up on my screen (even if they are minimised)
How do I turn off this most annoying feature.

Minimised Word doc's opens when opening new file

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