Word on Mac Document Hides after inactivity

Question

Word document window is hiding after a minute of inactivity. To access the document again I have to go to the Dock and click on Show. This Hiding continues in circles if the document is inactive for a minute.

Answer 1

Hi @Ashot Shagirian

Does this issue occur with other applications?

Have you pressed Command + Option + H?

Please make sure, there is no related 3rd-party software on your Macbook which automatically hides inactive apps after a period of time. Such as the applications mention in this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/ckx5xg/vanish_automatically_hide_inactive_apps_after_a/

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If there is no such application above, additionally, only Word has this issue, then I suggest you uninstall Word for Mac (Move Word application to Trash), and reinsall it from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/update-history-office-for-mac#:~:text=296537863427F4B9A8F8E735C77F27496EC28CDD49D30F038D71B76AF4406B1D-,Word,-Install%20package%0AUpdate.

If nothing helps, please create a new account user on Mac to check this issue.

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