I have now worked for two separate companies sharing the same “feature.” If I understand correctly, there should be indiv. icons on the Task bar for each document a user has open. However, in both offices I’ve been in this works for Word docs, but not for Excel or PowerPoint. Is this some weird coincidence, or is this a known issue?
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 11, 2001 at 9:17 am #1775490Unless —
you are not in Word 2000, but are openning separate occurences of Word. A big no-no. Once you have Word open, make sure that new Word documents are opened using the File / Open command in Word.
Sorry for the previous miscue — I tried to delete my prior erroneous post and was disallowed.
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WSPhil Rabichow
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GuestJanuary 11, 2001 at 10:22 pm #1775573Just to clarify, Word 2000 is an SDI (Single-Document Interface), not an MDI. This is why a new “instance” of Word is invoked for every document instead of all documents being open in the same parent instance of Word.
Excel and some of the other Office apps mimic this behavior by displaying a taskbar “icon” for each file open, but they are acutally still housed by the same parent instance. In these MDI applications, this behavior can be turned off by unchecking the “Windows in Taskbar” option.A quick way to tell if an application is an MDI or SDI is to see if the child window can be minimized/restores/maximized in the parent window. MDI applications usually allow this and SDI applications don’t. In Excel, you can minimize the individual workbooks. In Word, you cannot minimize the individual documents without minimizing the main Word window.
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WSPhil Rabichow
AskWoody LoungerJanuary 12, 2001 at 6:13 am #1775689Thank you for catching that, Scott. I did write it backwards. And the macro download for changing Word 2000 back to MDI is at
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