When I start up my mac, my word, excel and powerpoint applications open as well

if you are still experiencing this issue, try unchecking the box within the popup window that appears when you shutdown/ restart. this worked for me! 🙂

***(whoops - didn't mean to post a similar reply twice; was trying to also reply directly to someone's post, but I guess that didn't work.... 😁)

Hi There,

Simplest solution I had to this:

Yes, I have the restart all programs on startup box checked.

All you have to do is right click the Word Excel or PowerPoint icons down the bottom right of the screen and click close THEN shut down and they won't be back there again on startup.

Yes you have to do it if you used Excel or Word during your current session but it won't need closing until you open it again yourself.

Cheers

The fix is simple.

Go to "Recent Items" under System Preferences,

On the Bottom of the new window...Press "Clear Menu", and this just fixed my issue of hundreds of Word Files opening every time I needed a single Word file.

Hope this helps.

Thank You Rubjar - IT WORKED 😎

I was having the same issues, but what I noticed is that I was not "quitting" the applications when I closed them... so each time you turn on & off the computer it will re-launch what you left in standby earlier... you have to go through each application you use and "right click" on the icons and click "quit"

I first noticed this when only the applications that opened at startup where the ones that gave me that option right from the beginning...

good luck

+1 for Rubar's solution though only Step 1 was required

control click o the icon in your dock

options...

unclick "open at login"

Heres your solution to prevent Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac opening on Startup:

This DOESN'T work:

01. Right clicking on the Word, Excel and Powerpoint icons in the dock then clicking "Options" and then unchecking "Open at Login", Microsoft Office still opens

02. Going to "System Preferences", clicking on "Users & Groups" then selecting "Login items", (for me, theres no reference to ANY Microsoft Application whatsoever), Microsoft Office still opens

03. Going to "System Preferences", clicking on "General" then checking "Close windows when closing an application", guess what? Microsoft Office still opens!

This DOES work:

Go to "Applications > Microsoft Office 2011 > Office > Startup" then trash all folders in this folder to stop or prevent Microsoft Office from launching on Startup.

Job done.

it worked for me..... thanks much!!!!!

Finally stumbled on this gem of a thread! Thank you all for your help especially RUBJAR for submiting the solution that worked for me!

Thank you!

this solved my problem - many thanks Rubjar

Thank you! It's amazing what Microsoft really are for making their applications so ridiculously stupid.

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Thank you for this solution! I have been struggling with this for a while! If anyone else is having this issue follow Rubjar's solution.

perfect...i was having the same issue ...got solved today.....great