[mso] Re: I want two MS Word doc screens on the go at the same time.

Are you running Windows XP? If so, right-click on an empty space in the 
taskbar, select "properties", and if the option "Group similar taskbar buttons" 
 is checked, uncheck it.
Wilson
  
At 18:08 23/12/2006,Roger M. Bondy wrote:
>No I cannot. That is what I am trying to do.
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>On 12/23/2006 at 2:59 PM Chinell, David F \(GE Indust, Security\) wrote:
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>>Roger:
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>>Can you open two separate documents in two separate windows?
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>>This reminds me of a change they made -- maybe between Word 97 and Word=
> =3D
>>2000 or maybe between Word 6 and Word 7. They changed from multiple =3D
>>document interface to single document interface.
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>>It used to be that all Word documents opened in a single workspace =3D
>>(MDI). Then they changed it so each document opened in a separate =3D
>>workspace (SDI). Instead of seeing one Word button in the task bar, we =3D
>>started seeing one button for each Word document.
>>
>>Some liked it, some didn't.
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>>If you see a separate button for each document, then you can open two =3D
>>separate windows and arrange them however you like. If you only see one=
> =3D
>>button, then you're never going to have separate windows, no matter what=
> =3D
>>you do. The best you can hope for is to tile them in the same window =3D
>>either horizontally or vertically.
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>>I don't have Word 2003 running yet, so I don't know if you've got the =3D
>>option to see each document in a separate window. Hang on while I =3D
>>Google.
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface
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>>And everything I just read on the Web seems to indicate that Word 2003 =3D
>>opens documents in separate windows.
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>>If you can't do that to start with, maybe your installation has been =3D
>>customized to override the default behavior?


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