Marie, Go to Word's "Window" menu when you have two documents open. All being well there will be a "Compare Side by Side" option listed. George. From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marie Baisez Sent: 06 December 2009 10:18 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Word 2003: working with 2 document open side by side I used to be able to do this regularly using alt+tab to go from one document to the other, extremely handy for translation purposes. Now, when I open one document, the other disappears and I can't remember altering anything in the settings in Word. Can someone help please? Have an urgent translation to do. Thanks in advance to anyone taking the time to answer. Cheers now, Marie __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4663 (20091205) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com